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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Overview</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>In addition to the inclusion of AspectJ 1.5.0M1 and various
       miscellaneous improvements, many of the changes in this
       milestone release are centred around the theme of closer and
       more consistent integration with Eclipse. We now encourage (and
       set as default) a new setup whereby the Java editor is always
       used for .java files, aspects are contained in .aj files, and
       the standard Java outline page is always used, all without loss
       of functionality. See the relevant sections below for the
       changes that have made this possible. </p>

       <p>Being a milestone release, this is a work in progress, but
       feedback on these changes is very welcome. The newsgroup and
       mailing lists are the best places for this.</p>
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     <td colspan="2">
       <hr>
     </td>
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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>New Cross References view</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>This is a completely new view which shows how a given element
       is related to other elements. For example which advice is
       affecting a given method, or the places advised by a given piece
       of advice. The view tracks various selections, including single
       clicks in the package explorer and double clicks in the
       editor.</p>

       <img src="xref.png" width="411" height="128">

       <p>If you select a method, the cross references view shows you
       the relationships involving that method, plus any that involve
       code elements within the method (such as when the setting of a
       field is advised). If you select a class or aspect, you will
       see the relationships involving that class/aspect, plus any
       that involve the methods contained in the class/aspect.</p>

       <p>The view supports navigation, so you can double-click on an
       element to open the containing resource in the editor, with that
       element selected.</p>

       <p>Note: If upgrading from an earlier version of AJDT, you will
       need to rebuild any existing projects with this release, before
       any relationships will appear in this view.</p>
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       <hr>
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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Advice image decorator</b></td>

     <td width="70%" valign="top">
       <p>An image decorator has been added to indicate which Java
       elements are being advised. A small orange arrow to the left of
       the icon is used, as shown in the enlargement below. This
       decorator is used anywhere that the standard Java decorator is
       used, which includes the package explorer, the Java outline
       view, the Cross Reference view, and the members view in the Java
       browsing perspective. A preference page option is available if
       you wish to disable this function.</p>

     <img src="advicedecorator.png" width="347" height="215">

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       <hr>

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   </tr>

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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Outline view improvements</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>The standard Java outline view shows the structure of your
       classes and aspects, just like in the package explorer. Instead
       of requiring a build like the custom outline view (which is now
       disabled by default), the view updates based on the eagerly
       parsed structure of the current document. Filters are available
       to hide various different types of element, such as pointcuts and
       advice. The same aspect structure is also shown in the in-place
       outline view in the AspectJ editor.</p>

       <img src="inplace.png" width="298" height="357">

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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>New advises markers</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>Markers are added to the left-hand gutter of the editor to
       indicate where advice will take effect at runtime (or may take
       effect, if there is a dynamic test to the pointcut). Firstly,
       these markers now appear when using the Java editor, not just
       with the AspectJ editor. Secondly, additional markers have been
       added at the source of these relationships, namely the advice
       itself. The icons used are flipped versions of the existing
       ones. Selecting the context menu from one of these markers will
       show an "Advises" menu, similar to the "Advised By" menu shown
       at the other end of the relationship. As well as being more
       consistent, these new markers provide an additional means of
       navigating the aspect-oriented structure of your code.</p>

       <img src="advises.png" width="432" height="325">

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       <hr>
     </td>
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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>AspectJ 1.5.0M1</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>The first milestone release of AspectJ 5 is included, with
       all the accompanying documentation available in the Eclipse help
       system, including the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook.</p>

       <p>A new preference page has been added to allow the setting of
       the new options available with the AspectJ 5 compiler.</p>

       <img src="50opts.png" width="341" height="278">

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   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td colspan="2">
       <hr>
     </td>
   </tr>

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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Global incremental option</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>We encourage you to try out the incremental compilation
       mode. It's not as fast as we'd like, but it should work just
       fine, and still be quicker than a full build. To make activating
       this easier, we've moved the option to the new "Other" tab of
       the AspectJ compiler preference page, so that it can be set
       globally if desired.</p>

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       <hr>
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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Improved diagnostics</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>Now that AJDT is itself built with AspectJ, we can make use
       of its capabilities throughout the codebase. In addition to
       various enforcement and monitoring development-time aspects, we
       are now using aspects to improve our first failure data
       capture. This means our plugins are now much better at writing
       to the Eclipse .log file when an exception occurs, and more
       information is included in the log file.</p>

      </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td colspan="2">
       <hr>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Improved Mac OS X support</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>We don't usually have the resources to do much testing on
       this platform, but we have done some this time. We fixed a few
       bugs in AJDT and discovered an SWT bug which has since been
       fixed in the Eclipse 3.1 line.</p>

       <img src="vis_preferences.png" width="389" height="478">
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     <td colspan="2">
       <hr>
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       <p align="right"><b>Bug fixes</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>This release contains a fairly large number of bug fixes. The full list is available in

 <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=AJDT&target_milestone=1.2.0+M2&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=">Bugzilla.</a>

 The more notable ones are:

 <ul>
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70658">70658</a> Advised by gutter annotation & context menu missing
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71718">71718</a> Setting breakpoints does not work
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=73859">73859</a> Changing the aspect path etc should trigger a rebuild
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=74401">74401</a> External jars on inpath not found on Linux
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75373">75373</a> problem-markers created by other builders disappear
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75392">75392</a> Visualiser doesn't always refresh after a build
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75776">75776</a> Deleting AJ project triggers a build which results in an NPE
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=76811">76811</a> AJDT's project properties pages do not behave like JDT's
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=76903">76903</a> Wrong classpath for ajdoc
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77179">77179</a> Build configurator error when renaming packages
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77261">77261</a> Shouldn't be able to include files from outside a source folder
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77296">77296</a> Visualiser handle click doesn't work with .aj files
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77297">77297</a> Visualiser shows duplicate entries with multiple source folders
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77705">77705</a> Visualiser menu checkboxes not working on the Mac
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78023">78023</a> Source format removes privileged keyword
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78052">78052</a> Eclipse 3.1M3 issues
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78578">78578</a> AJDT Preferences Configuration Wizard reappears
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79979">79979</a> Missing markers for declare parents
 <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=80060">80060</a> Clean/Build Takes Extremely Long Time

 </ul>
 </p>


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     <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
       <p align="right"><b>Previous release</b></td>
     <td width="70%" valign="top">

       <p>See also information about the previous release:</p>

       <p><a href="../whatsnew120M1/">AJDT v1.2.0 M1 - New
       and Noteworthy</a></p>
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	<body>
	<h1>AJDT 1.2.0 M2 - New and Noteworthy</h1>

	<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%">

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Overview</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>In addition to the inclusion of AspectJ 1.5.0M1 and various
	miscellaneous improvements, many of the changes in this
	milestone release are centred around the theme of closer and
	more consistent integration with Eclipse. We now encourage (and
	set as default) a new setup whereby the Java editor is always
	used for .java files, aspects are contained in .aj files, and
	the standard Java outline page is always used, all without loss
	of functionality. See the relevant sections below for the
	changes that have made this possible. </p>

	<p>Being a milestone release, this is a work in progress, but
	feedback on these changes is very welcome. The newsgroup and
	mailing lists are the best places for this.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>New Cross References view</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>This is a completely new view which shows how a given element
	is related to other elements. For example which advice is
	affecting a given method, or the places advised by a given piece
	of advice. The view tracks various selections, including single
	clicks in the package explorer and double clicks in the
	editor.</p>

	<img src="xref.png" width="411" height="128">

	<p>If you select a method, the cross references view shows you
	the relationships involving that method, plus any that involve
	code elements within the method (such as when the setting of a
	field is advised). If you select a class or aspect, you will
	see the relationships involving that class/aspect, plus any
	that involve the methods contained in the class/aspect.</p>

	<p>The view supports navigation, so you can double-click on an
	element to open the containing resource in the editor, with that
	element selected.</p>

	<p>Note: If upgrading from an earlier version of AJDT, you will
	need to rebuild any existing projects with this release, before
	any relationships will appear in this view.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Advice image decorator</b></td>

	<td width="70%" valign="top">
	<p>An image decorator has been added to indicate which Java
	elements are being advised. A small orange arrow to the left of
	the icon is used, as shown in the enlargement below. This
	decorator is used anywhere that the standard Java decorator is
	used, which includes the package explorer, the Java outline
	view, the Cross Reference view, and the members view in the Java
	browsing perspective. A preference page option is available if
	you wish to disable this function.</p>

	<img src="advicedecorator.png" width="347" height="215">

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Outline view improvements</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>The standard Java outline view shows the structure of your
	classes and aspects, just like in the package explorer. Instead
	of requiring a build like the custom outline view (which is now
	disabled by default), the view updates based on the eagerly
	parsed structure of the current document. Filters are available
	to hide various different types of element, such as pointcuts and
	advice. The same aspect structure is also shown in the in-place
	outline view in the AspectJ editor.</p>

	<img src="inplace.png" width="298" height="357">

	</tr>


	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>New advises markers</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>Markers are added to the left-hand gutter of the editor to
	indicate where advice will take effect at runtime (or may take
	effect, if there is a dynamic test to the pointcut). Firstly,
	these markers now appear when using the Java editor, not just
	with the AspectJ editor. Secondly, additional markers have been
	added at the source of these relationships, namely the advice
	itself. The icons used are flipped versions of the existing
	ones. Selecting the context menu from one of these markers will
	show an "Advises" menu, similar to the "Advised By" menu shown
	at the other end of the relationship. As well as being more
	consistent, these new markers provide an additional means of
	navigating the aspect-oriented structure of your code.</p>

	<img src="advises.png" width="432" height="325">

	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>AspectJ 1.5.0M1</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>The first milestone release of AspectJ 5 is included, with
	all the accompanying documentation available in the Eclipse help
	system, including the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook.</p>

	<p>A new preference page has been added to allow the setting of
	the new options available with the AspectJ 5 compiler.</p>

	<img src="50opts.png" width="341" height="278">

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Global incremental option</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>We encourage you to try out the incremental compilation
	mode. It's not as fast as we'd like, but it should work just
	fine, and still be quicker than a full build. To make activating
	this easier, we've moved the option to the new "Other" tab of
	the AspectJ compiler preference page, so that it can be set
	globally if desired.</p>

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Improved diagnostics</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>Now that AJDT is itself built with AspectJ, we can make use
	of its capabilities throughout the codebase. In addition to
	various enforcement and monitoring development-time aspects, we
	are now using aspects to improve our first failure data
	capture. This means our plugins are now much better at writing
	to the Eclipse .log file when an exception occurs, and more
	information is included in the log file.</p>

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Improved Mac OS X support</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>We don't usually have the resources to do much testing on
	this platform, but we have done some this time. We fixed a few
	bugs in AJDT and discovered an SWT bug which has since been
	fixed in the Eclipse 3.1 line.</p>

	<img src="vis_preferences.png" width="389" height="478">
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Bug fixes</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>This release contains a fairly large number of bug fixes. The full list is available in

	<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=AJDT&target_milestone=1.2.0+M2&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=">Bugzilla.</a>

	The more notable ones are:

	<ul>
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70658">70658</a> Advised by gutter annotation & context menu missing
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71718">71718</a> Setting breakpoints does not work
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=73859">73859</a> Changing the aspect path etc should trigger a rebuild
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=74401">74401</a> External jars on inpath not found on Linux
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75373">75373</a> problem-markers created by other builders disappear
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75392">75392</a> Visualiser doesn't always refresh after a build
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75776">75776</a> Deleting AJ project triggers a build which results in an NPE
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=76811">76811</a> AJDT's project properties pages do not behave like JDT's
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=76903">76903</a> Wrong classpath for ajdoc
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77179">77179</a> Build configurator error when renaming packages
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77261">77261</a> Shouldn't be able to include files from outside a source folder
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77296">77296</a> Visualiser handle click doesn't work with .aj files
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77297">77297</a> Visualiser shows duplicate entries with multiple source folders
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77705">77705</a> Visualiser menu checkboxes not working on the Mac
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78023">78023</a> Source format removes privileged keyword
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78052">78052</a> Eclipse 3.1M3 issues
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78578">78578</a> AJDT Preferences Configuration Wizard reappears
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79979">79979</a> Missing markers for declare parents
	<li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=80060">80060</a> Clean/Build Takes Extremely Long Time

	</ul>
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	<tr>

	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td width="30%" valign="top" align="left">
	<p align="right"><b>Previous release</b></td>
	<td width="70%" valign="top">

	<p>See also information about the previous release:</p>

	<p><a href="../whatsnew120M1/">AJDT v1.2.0 M1 - New
	and Noteworthy</a></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>

	<td colspan="2">
	<hr>
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