[aspectj-users] Addressing classes that arent being compiled

[Mark Kattenbelt <kattenbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm new to AspectJ, and am very interested in it, but ran into a few 
limitation I think. Ideally I would like my programs to contain separate 
modules, say a GUI and a main program, without each of these being aware 
of eachother. So I was just experimenting with this via AspectJ, and ran 
into the following:

pointcut textFieldInit (JTextField textField) :
      initialization(JTextField.new(..)) && this(textField);

after (JTextField textField) : textFieldInit(textField)
{
      System.out.println("TextFieldInit!" + textField);  
}  

But this does not seem to work (only with classes that I have defined 
myself), I think because the weaver cannot edit the class files of 
JTextField. This makes sense to me but how else could you do anything 
sensible with a GUI? Are there any examples where aspectJ binds a swing 
GUI to the program?

Thanks for any help,

Mark