Re: [aspectwerkz-dev] Creating AOPified javadocs

MessageHi

Speaking in terms of AOP, the concept of AspectJ ajdoc with some rewrite to fit the crosscutting annotations requirement would probably be a nice fit.
Personnaly I think this kind of needs around annotations will be addressed by numerous tools in a near future.
(does someone knows what happens f.e. if in Intellij 4.5 with java 5 support, I do a find usage of "foo" Annotation, it works fine ? - I guess it does !)

If someone wants to start that by its own, we are using Qdox to parse java source code (f.e. in AnnotationC), and this library is really good. Support for parsing Java 5 sources (thus JSR 175 annotations) is beeing discussed.

Alex
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guy Hacham 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:47 AM
  Subject: [aspectwerkz-dev] Creating AOPified javadocs


  Hi,

   I wonder if there is a way I can create documentation containing all the information about all classes and the relation between them.

  You can see it as AOPified javadocs that includes all the information from the xml and the annotations.

   Rickard showed-off with a tool they have at http://jroller.com/page/rickard/20040302#static_crosscutting_rocks you can see the documentation example at http://www.senselogic.se/webdav/files/rickard/ForumId.htm 

  I think this is a great way to describe an AOP project and I agree with Rickard saying "using static crosscutting in AOP can be a very powerful and useful design tool, but it more or less requires that you have a good visualization tool in order to avoid confusion when using the objects".

   Having a tool like this could be a great leap forward in using aspectwerkz in more complex environments.

   

  Guy.