What's the current state of AspectJ?

Question

A new version of AspectJ was released a few weeks ago. But most of the official documentation is really old, dating before the AspectWerkz merge. Books are similarly dated. It's difficult to figure out what has happened post-merge.

Have the AspectJ language extensions and ajc become mandatory now? Has the AspectWerkz pure java implementation disappeared?

Thanks.

Answer 1

AspectWerkz was merged with AspectJ since AspectJ 5. But the current version of AspectJ is 6. So there are a lot of books and documentation which covers @AspectJ. For example, AspectJ in Action, Second Edition covers AspectJ 6 and it is a great book. And you can find the official @AspectJ documentation here.