Eric,

>If you want to give static guarantees, it's just painful and that's
>what many people are worried about.
But you _can_ make static guarantees about the AspectJ program. What you 
seem to be describing is the trouble with making such guarantees about a 
Java program that is later deployed and executed as an AspectJ program. My 
comment about reflection related to privileged aspects but again you can 
make static guarantees unlike with reflection.

Matthew Webster
AOSD Project
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On 2/22/07, Matthew Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Eric,
>
> I was aware of the work on open modules but have not read the papers you 
refer to. Perhaps I should. However I do not believe any new controls are 
necessary because Java in conjunction with a runtime modularity framework 
like OSGi already provides sufficient mechanisms. This is why I am working 
on AOSGi (http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/aspects/).

Oh, sounds interesting. I will have a look at it.

>
> >I know whole research communities which believe that not being able to
>  >guarantee any sort of encapsulation by far the largest problem of
>  >AspectJ.
> I not believe AspectJ breaks encapsulation any more than Java 
reflection.

Well, that might be true but a lot of people would say that reflection
is bad style for almost everything but a few distinct use cases, too.
If you want to give static guarantees, it's just painful and that's
what many people are worried about.

Eric

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Eric Bodden
Sable Research Group
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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