AspectJ in Action, Second Edition

Foreword

This is a timely book, about a powerful and widely used technology that continues to grow in importance.

Since the first edition of AspectJ in Action, much has changed in AspectJ and the broader environment. This comprehensive update squarely addresses these changes.

Among the changes, three issues stand out: important new capabilities of AspectJ, increasing interest in dynamic languages in general and on the JVM, and the emergence of AspectJ as a key practical technology in mainstream enterprise Java.

AspectJ has matured greatly since the first edition. It now has comprehensive support for Java annotations, along with support for other language improvements such as generics, variable-length argument lists, and covariant return types. Annotations ...