Re: hot deployment and multiple pointcuts

Hi Jonas,
Thanks for the quick reply, it cleared things up.
The cvs repository seems to be working fine now.

I think your new additions will fill in the few missing pieces for me.
Thanks again,
Joe Milora

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonas Bonér" <[email protected]>
To: "Joseph Milora" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [aspectwerkz-developer] hot deployment and multiple pointcuts


> Hi Joseph.
>
> This holds for the coming release (and the latest snapshot in the CVS).
>
> * I you add an advice dynamically using:
>
> AspectWerkz.createAdvice("myadvice", "test.Advice", "perInstance", null);
>
> * Then you can add it to a Pointcut using:
>
> // get all the aspects for a certain class pattern
> List aspects = AspectWerkz.getAspects("test.*");
>
> // get the aspect we want (call it aspect)
> ...
>
> // add the advice to the pointcut we want (need to use the same pattern
> as specified before)
> aspect.getMethodPointcut("* to*(..)").addAdvice("myadvice");
>
> * You can also retrieve a list of all the Pointcuts for a specific
> method or field using the MethodMetaData (or FieldMetaData) as a
> parameter. And then add the advice to the Pointcut you want.
> Like this:
>
> // get the pointcuts for a specific method
> MethodPointcut[] pointcuts = AspectWerkz.getAspect("test.*").
> getMethodPointcut(MethodMetaData metaData);
>
> // get the poincut we want (call it pointcut)
> ...
>
> // add the advice to the pointcut
> pointcut.addAdvice("myadvice");
>
>
> Hope it clears out a few things.
>
> Sincerely, Jonas.
>
> Ps. What is the problem with accessing the CVS? Ds.
>
>
> Joseph Milora wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about the hot deployment.
> > If I want to dynamically add an advice to an aspect, do I have to
> > specify every pointcut?
> > For example, with the logging example, if I specify a pointcut pattern
> > of to.*, every toLog(n)
> > call will be intercepted. If I try to add an advice dynamically, I'd
> > like to be able to specify the same
> > pattern, without having to manually add each method explicitly.
> > Also, the ability to add new advices dynamically looks great, but I'm
> > having a problem accessing the
> > cvs repository to get the latest build.
> >
> > BTW great tool!
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Joe Milora
>
>
> -- 
> Jonas
> http://freeroller.net/page/jboner
>
>
>



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