Re: [aspectj-users] Is AspectJ capable of modifying source code?

["Angel Todorov" <attodorov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the feedback. My scenario is the following: I have some
already generated web service stubs from WSDLs ( I am using axis2 for
that ), and I would like to make these stubs policy-aware. I.e. if a
security assertion is defined somewhere I would like to insert some
statement like serviceStub.engageSecurityModule(), before calling the
actual stub's execute() operation. I would like to "modify" the stubs,
so that one is not dependent on AspectJ at build-time / run-time.

Regards,
Angel

On 5/24/07, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> AFAIK one of the earliest versions of AspectJ used to do source code
> transformation but now that's all done on the bytecode level. Why
> would you want to do this on source code anyway?
>
> Eric
>
> On 24/05/07, Angel Todorov <attodorov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am very new to AspectJ and I would like to know whether AspectJ can
> > modify existing source code ? Is there some post-processing way of
> > injecting (the results of) invoking aspects in the source code , in
> > design/build  time?
> >
> > For instance, I would like to insert some java statement whenever some
> > method X of class Y is called. I would like to do that with an aspect,
> > but I would like AspectJ to actually modify the source code not to
> > "invoke" the stuff at runtime (or inject it at classload time).
> >
> > The easiest alternative to me is, of course, to use regular
> > expressions, parsing , and similar "hacks", but I would prefer a
> > cleaner solution that is semantic-aware and always guaranteed to
> > insert statements at the correct location.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your feedback.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Angel
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> Eric Bodden
> Sable Research Group
> McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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