[aspectwerkz-dev] Re: [aspectwerkz-user] Problems with custom attributes and execution() pointcut

> The custom annotation stuff of 0.10 and below was basically just hack (I
> did the impl for the aspect def and just threw in the custom one), so
> there might be some problems with it.

Yeah, we've noticed it ;-) The funny thing is that, at first sight, the code
seems ok. We're going to take a deeper look at it since we've got to use
0.10 for now. We'll let you know when/if we fix it.

> Thanks for reporting that the interface subtype impl is not behaving
> correctly, I will fix that ASAP.

BTW, both behaviours are desirable. We need to match all the methods of a
subclass for one use case and only the methods declared in the super class
in other situations. I actually think the first case is more useful to us
now, but we definitely need both. I think that the current sintax should
work as it does now, i.e., match all methods of a subclass, and that maybe a
pattern like:

* (package.Interface)+.*(..)

could match only the methods defined in the interface. What do you think
about it?

Regards,
Michael Nascimento Santos
JSR-207 Expert Group Member
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