Are Limitations in AspectJ 1.1 satisfied with 1.5?
Fabiano Ricci <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
in the "Improving Changeability of COTS System Using AOP" ( Li, Kvale,
Conradi 2006) authors explains some limitations of AJ:
1) It doesn't provide a full support to access variables in the target
program.
A pointcut can create a reference to all variables in a joinpoint.
Possible variables are: this, target. variables passed as parameters to
the actual function in object and the returning value of the method. If
we want catch other variables we must change the Source Code ( not
available in black-box application ) and include this variables in that
jointpoint
2) If we want to access an object at runtime, we need to know the type
of that object. So if we don't know the source code we can't access to
that object. There is a manner to avoid this?
This two issues make very difficult create an aspect that automatically
profiling black-box applications
thank you for replies, best regards
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