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<title>Summary of Join Point Matching</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="aspectj-docs.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.44"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The AspectJTM 5 Development Kit Developer's Notebook"><link rel="up" href="jpsigs.html" title="Chapter 1. Join Point Signatures"><link rel="previous" href="join-point-modifiers.html" title="Join Point Modifiers"><link rel="next" href="annotations.html" title="Chapter 2. Annotations"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Summary of Join Point Matching</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="join-point-modifiers.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. Join Point Signatures</th><td width="20%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="annotations.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><a name="join-point-matching-summary"></a><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="join-point-matching-summary"></a>Summary of Join Point Matching</h2></div></div><p>
A join point has potentially multiple signatures, but only one set of
modifiers. <span class="emphasis"><i>A kinded primitive pointcut matches a particular join point
if and only if</i></span>:
</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><a name="d0e526"></a>They are of the same kind</li><li><a name="d0e528"></a>The signature pattern (exactly) matches at least one
signature of the join point</li><li><a name="d0e530"></a>The modifiers pattern matches the modifiers of the
subject of the join point</li></ol></div><p>Given the hierarchy</p><pre class="programlisting">
interface Q {
R m(String s);
}
class P implements Q {
@Foo
public R m(String s) {...}
}
class S extends P {
@Bar
public R' m(String s) {...}
}
class T extends S {}
</pre><p>and the program fragment:</p><pre class="programlisting">
P p = new P();
S s = new S();
T t = new T();
...
p.m("hello");
s.m("hello");
t.m("hello");
</pre><p>
The the pointcut <tt>call(@Foo R P.m(String))</tt> matches the
call <tt>p.m("hello")</tt> since both the signature and the
modifiers match. It does not match the call <tt>s.m("hello")</tt>
because even though the signature pattern matches one of the signatures
of the join point, the modifiers pattern does not match the modifiers of
the method m in S which is the static target of the call.
</p><p>The pointcut <tt>call(R' m(String))</tt> matches the
calls <tt>t.m("hello")</tt> and <tt>s.m("hello")</tt>.
It does not match the call <tt>p.m("hello")</tt> since the
signature pattern does not match any signature for the call join point
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