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  Peeking Inside the Box: Attribute-Oriented Programming with Java 1.5, Part 2
Subject:   Did I miss the boat ( XDoclet functionality )?
Date:   2004-08-01 14:39:38
From:   schwardo
Response to: Did I miss the boat ( XDoclet functionality )?

The annotation spec (JSR-175) describes a method of embedding annotations in Java source code and ways of accessing that data from bytecode or at run-time.


As of Java 1.5.0b2, a new tool has been included with Java called apt , which is a tool to auto-generate files (Java source code as well as other build artifacts) using annotations. This is very much in line with XDoclet. Although apt wasn't available at the time I wrote this article, my goal was very similar to apt's. However, I extended this concept to include not only compile-time build processes, but modification of bytecode while it is running.

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