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| What's new in AJDT 1.5 |
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| <p>Here are some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the |
| AspectJ Development Tools since the 1.4.1 release (see the online |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew141/">What's new in AJDT 1.4.1</a> |
| page for the changes in that release).</p> |
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| <h3>What's new in AJDT 1.5</h3> |
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| <td valign="top" align="left"><b>Crosscutting Changes</b></td> |
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| It is now possible to show when there has been a |
| change in the crosscutting relationships in your project. |
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| <img src="changedadvicemarker.png" width="309" height="104" alt="Change in advice marker"> |
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| As shown above, advice markers are highlighted when the crosscutting |
| has changed, such when a method is advised for the first time, or when |
| there has been a change in the set of places affected by some advice. |
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| This functionality needs to be enabled by going to |
| <b>Window > Preferences...</b> then selecting |
| <b>General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations.</b> |
| Now select "<b>AspectJ change in crosscutting</b>" and select |
| <b>Vertical ruler</b> option. |
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| You can also right-click the new markers and select |
| <b>AspectJ Tools > Show changes in Crosscutting Comparison view.</b> |
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| <img src="comparisonref.png" width="249" height="107" alt="Reference point for comparison"> |
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| The reference point for the comparison can be changed using the new |
| drop-down on the Cromsscutting Comparison view. The choices are |
| to use the last build (of any type), the last full build, or a |
| crosscutting map file in the project. |
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| This new functionality can be seen in action in the |
| animated demo shown at EclipseCon: |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/demos/#ECLIPSECON07">What's New In AJDT.</a> |
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| <td valign="top" align="left"><b>Crosscutting Maps and View changes</b></td> |
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| Changes relating |
| to crosscutting maps and the crosscutting comparison view: |
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| <li>Two entries have been added to the filters dialog in the crosscutting |
| comparison view, to allow all added relationships or all removed |
| relationships to be filtered from the view.</li> |
| <li>The columns of the view now resize appropriately as the view is resized.</li> |
| <li>Settings in the view, such as the state of the "Propagate Up" |
| button are now persisted across workspace sessions.</li> |
| <li>The editor for crosscutting map files (with the ".ajmap" extension) |
| has been enhanced to show more information, including the date the |
| file was created or modified, and the number of relationships stored |
| in the file.</li> |
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| <td valign="top" align="left"><b>AspectJ Build Path configuration</b></td> |
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| AspectJ aspectpath and inpath entries were previously stored |
| as Eclipse preferences in a ".settings" folder. |
| These settings are now stored |
| in the ".classpath" file instead. They appear as regular classpath entries with |
| the addition of a custom attribute which indicates if that entry is |
| also on the aspectpath or inpath. |
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| The same AspectJ Build properties page and context menu entries |
| are available for configuring the aspectpath and inpath settings. Any |
| old preferences settings will be automatically migrated |
| to the new .classpath format (which will then not be recognised by |
| older versions of AJDT). |
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| When entries are added to the aspectpath or inpath, they are now also |
| added to the classpath. Note that removing entries from the classpath |
| will mean they are also removed from the aspectpath or inpath. But |
| removing entries from the aspectpath or inpath will NOT remove them from |
| the build path. This can be considered as a move away from the "3 paths" |
| model toward one where there is a single path, the regular classpath, and |
| some entries on this path can be given additional properties. |
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| The AJDT image decorator is now used to indicate which build path |
| entries are also on the aspectpath or inpath. |
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| <img src="ajbuildpath.png" width="339" height="167" alt="Aspectpath and inpath entries"> |
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| <td valign="top" align="left"><b>Select and copy from the Cross References view</b></td> |
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| The contents of the Cross References view can now be copied to the clipboard |
| as text. You can |
| do this by selecting the entries required or by using the "Select All" action, and |
| then using the standard "Copy" action -- either with the standard key bindings, |
| the workbench Edit menu, or the new context menu as shown below. |
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| <img src="xrefcopy.png" width="290" height="116" alt="Select and copy from the Cross References view"> |
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| <td valign="top" align="left"><b>Bug fixes</b></td> |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=AJDT&target_milestone=1.5&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=">List of bugs fixed in AJDT 1.5.</a> |
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