Hi Alexei, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by application-level logging. It is possible to get more fine-grained information using aspects if that's what you mean, such as tracing individual methods, logging field reads and writes, logging when Exceptions are caught and logging when certain methods are called and where from. You can't use aspects to add logging into the middle of a method, unless it's at a well defined point. If there was some specific information you wanted to add at a specific place there's no problem using a combination of aspects and hand-coded logging. Does that answer your question at all?
Thanks, Sian On 14/11/06, Alexei Zakharov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sian, Cool! Thanks for this. Can AspectJ be used for something more sophisticated than just tracing? For application-level logging for example? Thanks, 2006/11/14, Sian January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Following a recent discussion on this list I have been looking into how > aspects could be used for tracing in the Harmony class library code. I have > been using AspectJ and have written a really simple tracing aspect for the > math module, adapted the build.xml script and written some instructions on > how to apply it. At the moment the aspect just does entry and exit tracing > and prints to System.out, but this is because it's a first draft - it is > possible to do more targeted tracing and to use frameworks such as > java.util.logging with aspects. > > Steps to follow: > > > 1. Download AspectJ from > http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/downloads.php > > 2. Copy aspectjrt.jar to /depends/jars/aspectj/ > > 3. Copy aspectjtools.jar and aspectjrt.jar to ANT_HOME/lib and if using > Eclipse add both of these to your ant runtime configuration (Window > > Preferences > Ant > Runtime > Add...) > > 4. Edit build file to use iajc* instead of javac and include aspect class > files (or apply the buildxmlpatch.txt to build.xml in the math module) > > 5. Write a tracing aspect (or copy the one attached to > modules\math\src\main\java\org\apache\harmony\tracing) > > 6. Re-build the module > > 7. Make sure to add aspectjrt.jar to the runtime classpath of whatever > program you are running. > > > * - iajc isn't incremental like javac in ant, it will always do a total > rebuild. Also if you switch from using iajc back to javac you will need to > do a clean before you do a rebuild. > Please also note that it's not possible to use this kind of tracing for any > classes that are depended on by the AspectJ runtime or there will be errors > initializing the classes because of circular dependencies. However I think > most modules apart from luni should be safe. Also it's important to not > trace methods that are called (directly or indirectly) by your tracing > methods otherwise you will end up in an endless loop. > > If anyone thinks this information might be useful to have available > somewhere I would be happy to expand it a bit for a web page or a Wiki page. > > Regards, > > Sian -- Alexei Zakharov, Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
-- Sian January IBM Java Technology Centre, UK
