What are your plans to make AspectJ a general feature of Java supported by Sun and the other key-players in the Java Industry?
Although we are committed to making AspectJ available to a wide range of users, it is too early to decide on a strategy. Some options include continuing AspectJ as a stand-alone product, integrating it into IDEs, or possibly incorporating it into standard Java with Sun’s blessing. We currently focus on developing for the 1.1 implementation which improves AspectJ in key areas: rapid incremental compilation, bytecode weaving, and IDE integration. Through all of this our goal is to make AspectJ integrate as seamlessly as possible with the Java programming language. The AspectJ language design is becoming more integrated, the compiler is becoming faster and more integrated, the IDE extensions are becoming more integrated. All of this is designed to help users really use AspectJ and give us feedback on it. As the system is improved and we work more closely with users, we will be in good position to explore the best path for AspectJ in the long term.
