Re: [aspectj-users] Announcing much closer integration between the Sprin

[Alexandre Vasseur <avasseur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations for the move Adrian !
Aside from a technology perfect match I am sure you'll have lot of fun
with the Interface21 guys, and a lot to do there as well !

Alex

On 9/6/05, Adrian Colyer <adrian.colyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce plans for much closer integration between the
> Spring and AspectJ projects in the near future. Spring and AspectJ
> already fit well together: Spring can be used to configure aspects,
> aspects can be used to drive Spring configuration, and we are working
> on opening up the AspectJ pointcut language so that external tools can
> create pointcuts at runtime, and then perform matching. This facility
> will be used by Spring to support AspectJ pointcut expressions in its
> AOP proxy framework.
> 
> As of October, this relationship will move onto a new level as I have
> resigned from my current post at IBM to take up the post of Chief
> Scientist at Interface21.  I will continue to work on and lead the
> AspectJ project (no change there), and will also be working on some of
> the Spring core and AOP support to make the integration with AspectJ
> as seamless as possible and to take the AOP message to as broad an
> audience as we can.  I'm leaving behind a fantastic IBM team who have
> worked with me on AspectJ and AJDT these past few years, and they will
> carry  right on working on these projects when I leave. Rest assured
> that I'm still working flat out on completing AspectJ 5 too.
> 
> I've written before about the combination of dependency injection,
> aspects, and annotations as forming the ideal platform on which to
> build applications
> (http://www.aspectprogrammer.org/blogs/adrian/2005/03/the_new_holy_tr.html
> ). Spring and AspectJ are the two leading technologies in this space,
> and bringing them together under one roof promises to be very
> exciting.  I'm sure that AspectJ can learn some things from the Spring
> community, but also that as an AspectJ community we have much to offer
> to Spring as well.
> 
> Thank you for the great support that you all give to the AspectJ
> project - it really does make a difference. I'm looking forward to
> delivering the tools you need to develop great software for a long
> time to come yet...
> 
> Regards,  Adrian.
> AspectJ project lead.
> 
> adrian.colyer@xxxxxxxxx
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