Wednesday, September 3, 2003

AspectWerkz has support for IBM

(imported from http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/avasseur, read comments there)

I managed to bring IBM jdk support to AspectWerkz for on the fly weaving.
Read more on project blog

IBM bundles a specific JRE that I did not planned when hacking the JVM hook architecture that allow on the fly weaving, so some of you reported JVM crash. Now it is fixed (in CVS HEAD) and for other exotic VM, an explicit error message should be reported.

If you have issues with it, please provide feedback. The IBM jre (at least 1.3.x) seems to have many issues as regards jars packaging. f.e I had to remove index.lst from meta-inf/ in two third parties jars for it to work...