AspectJ Development Environment Support for Forte for Java

compile AspectJ and Java files within the IDE

set up a compile configuration that determine which files will be passed to the compiler

browse the structure of your AspectJ program

Use the installer to place the "ajdeForForte.jar" in Forte's modules directory  and "aspectjrt.jar" in to Forte's lib/ext directory.

In the "Tools" menu select "Global Options"

Right-click the "Modules" item and select "New Module from File..."

Find the ajdeForForte.jar in the directory that you installed into (e.g. c:\forte4j\modules) and select it.

AJDE can be toggled on/off with the "AJ" button--when it is turned off all of the menus, resources, and event listeners that it uses will be removed.

The AJDE functionality is now contained within it's own toolbar and menu.

AJDE support can be toggled on and off by means of the "AJ" button.

For working with AspectJ code use only the AspectJ toolbar and the "AspectJ Structure" explorer, along with the filesystem explorer--do not use the regular compile/debug/execute buttons.

You must mount a filesystem whose path ends with "ajworkingdir" and will be warned to do so if you don't.  This is where ajc will put it's generated source and output class files.

"Mode" switching is not supported in this version--you must do all of your AspectJ work in the "Editing" mode.  If you switch modes the IDE has to be restarted for the AspectJ window to show again.

There is no compiler progress dialog--the way to tell if the compile is finished is to watch the "status" area of the main window.

There are no keyboard compile/execute shortcuts.

The structure view is not persistent between IDE launches--you must compile to view the structure for a program.

The debugger has not seen much use and it's stability and performance is limited.

There is no ajdoc tool support.

Linux testing has been very limited.

in the "Tools" menu select "Global Options"

right-click the "Modules" item and select "New Module from File..."

find the ajdeForForte.jar in the directory that you installed into (e.g. c:\forte4j\modules) and select it

open an AspectJ project in Forte 

in the "Project" menu select "Settings"

open the "Compiler Types" item 

right-click the nested "External Compilation" item and select "New External Compilation Service" (the new item will appear as a child node of the "External Compilation" node)

click on the newly created service and in the right (properties) pane make the following changes:

"External Compiler" -> c:{/}apps{/}aspectj0.7{/}bin{/}ajc.bat -d c:{/}apps{/}aspectj0.7{/}examples -classpath {filesystems}{:}{classpath} {files}

Identifying Name -> AJC

Error Expression -> make a new one by clicking "..." and adding a new "Preset" called "AJC" with the following entries

Error expression: ^([^ ][^]+):([^][^]+):([0-9]+): (.*)

File Position: 1

Line Position: 2

Column Position: 3

Message Position: 4

click on the "Java Sources" item in the same "Project Settings" window and change the "Default Compiler" to "AJC"

in the "Project" menu select "New Project..."

enter "AspectJ Examples" as the projects' name and click "OK"

click "New" when prompted about the filesystems to use

browse into the AspectJ install directory (e.g. "C:\apps\aspectj0.7")

select "examples" and click "Mount"

in the "Explorer" window right-click "Project AspectJ Examples" and select "Add Existing..."

from the "examples" file system select all of the directories (by shift-clicking the top and bottom most" and click "OK"

click the "AJ" button (or in the "View" menu select "AspectJ Structure View"

In the "Explorer" window you can now select the "AspectJ Structure" tab and navigate the structure of the examples

You should also add a filesystem whose leaf directory is called "ajworkindir"--this is where the preprocessed files and output classes will be placed

in the "AspectJ Structure" tab of the Project Explorer select "spacewar/default.lst" to compile that build configuration

in the "Build" menu select "Compile with ajc"

in the "Filesystems" tab of the "Project Explorer" and open up the "ajworkingdir" filesystem

open up the "spacewar" package

scroll down to the "Game" class, right click it, and select "Execute"