[aspectj-users] Previously running program broke with 3.0M8/AJDT 1.1.8

[mmonteiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Today I found out that a program that runned without any problems with 
eclipse 2.1/AJDT 1.1.4 broke with eclipse 3.0M8/AJDT 1.1.8. 

The cause were pointcuts that targeted constructor executions based on a 
marker interface. They worked fine with in the older environment, but the 
pointcuts no longer captured the *.new() joinpoints in the new version. 

Next follows a simplified example that captures the situation. It runs fine 
with eclipse 2.1/AJDT 1.1.4 but throws a RuntimeException with 3.0M8/AJDT 
1.1.8. 

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public class Capsule {
}
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import java.util.ArrayList; 

public aspect Generic {
 private interface Marker {}
 private ArrayList Marker._list;
 pointcut markerCreation(Marker marker):
    execution(Marker.new(..)) && this(marker);
 after(Marker marker) returning : markerCreation(marker) {
    marker._list = new ArrayList();
 }
 public int Marker.getSize() {
    return this._list.size();
 }
 declare parents: Capsule implements Marker;
}
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public class Run {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    Capsule capsule = new Capsule();
    System.out.println("Size on creation: " + capsule.getSize());
 }
}
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Was there any change in the semantics of AspectJ from 1.1 to 1.2? 

Miguel J. T. Pessoa Monteiro
Ph.D. student Minho University,Portugal
eMail: mmonteiro@xxxxxxxxxxxx
URL:http://gec.di.uminho.pt/mpm/