[aspectwerkz-user] defining a new aspect at run-time

Hi all,

After spending some time evaluating aspectJ and aspectwerkz, I decided the latter was a better fit for my purpose because of its dynamic nature. I was able to set it up to use native hotswap etc. 

Now I would like to introduce a new aspect at run-time:

xmlDef="<aspect class='test.com.ubs.firc.support.aspect.GenericMethodDecorator'> " +
       "<pointcut name='allMethods' expression='call(* bsh.This.toString())'/>" +
       "<advice name='decorate' type='around' bind-to='allMethods'/>" +
       "</aspect>";

h = Deployer.deploy(GenericMethodDecorator.class, xmlDef);


Debugging through the AspectWerkz code, this seems impossible. One can only "change" the definition of an existing aspect, but not introduce a new one (because JoinPointFactory.COMPILATION_INFO_REPOSITORY is empty). I have no aop.xml, no aspects or aspect config files whatsoever are declared at startup. However, I'm sure it worked at some point. Why it worked I have no idea. After to two lines above, I started trying to get a hold on the aspect instance calling various 'aspectOf' methods in the Aspects class. The one that eventually gave me the correct aspect instance was 

a = Aspects.aspectOf(bsh.This.class.getClassLoader(),
    			   "test.com.ubs.firc.support.aspect.GenericMethodDecorator");

Anyway, is it in principle possible to do what I'm trying to do? I'm willing to hack into the AspectWerkz source code if need be....

Thanks,
Boris

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