Part 2. The AspectJ Language

Part 1 introduced you to AspectJ and the AspectJ Development Tools in a tutorial fashion. Along the way, you should have picked up a basic understanding of the AspectJ language. In Part 2, we build on that and fill in some of the details that we passed over previously to give you the complete picture.

Chapter 5 presents an overview of the language, showing how the constituent parts fit together. In Chapter 6 you will find an in-depth treatment of pointcut expressions for matching join points. Chapter 7 explores the different kinds of advice that you can write in an AspectJ program and discusses their usage. Chapter 8 describes inter-type declarations in all their various forms, and Chapter 9 shows how all the parts ...

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