Attribute-Oriented Programming with Java 1.5, Part 2 (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted July 26, 2004 by cook]

Don Schwarz continues his series on Java attribute-oriented programming with part two. "In the previous article in this series, "Peeking Inside the Box, Part 1," I introduced the concepts of Attribute-Oriented Programming, Java 1.5 annotations, and bytecode instrumentation. I used these concepts to provide a JStatusBar GUI component that reports on the progress of an application without any explicit code. In this article I will introduce a completely different implementation of the same JStatusBar that uses thread sampling rather than bytecode instrumentation. I will then combine the two practices to develop a solution that has the best features of each."