The only problem, it seems, with aspectj is that you're pushing the pain of inserting log4j inserts from your code to the aspectj specific config files (which is not xml...bad). It does have that nice separation of source and debugging/tracing. Interesting though...
Aaron Smuts wrote: > Look at http://www.aspectj.org > > Basically, it was designed to do just this, sort of. > > Someone on my team did this and put in timing and some other stuff. It took > him an hour or less to figure it out and have it running. > > We use it for development. It is a bit too powerful. > > It can get pretty confusing. You want to avoid aspect on top of aspect > code. You'll never be able to figure out why something is behaving the way > it is. > > Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: automatic trace insertion > > Hi all, > > I'm interested in automatically inserting log4j trace statements at the > beginning of all methods and right before the end of a method (return > statement or thrown exception). I'm presuming most people have worked > on projects with extensive class libraries and it would be great if > there was a class parser that could intelligently insert log4j > statements automatically. If there isn't anything out there like that, > does anyone know of a java class parser that can be used to do this sort > of thing? Thoughts or ideas? Thanks! > > -- > Benson Chen > Director of Software Engineering > Porivo Technologies, Inc. > Phone: (919)806-0566x12 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Measuring end-to-end Web performance" > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Benson Chen Director of Software Engineering Porivo Technologies, Inc. Phone: (919)806-0566x12 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Measuring end-to-end Web performance" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>