Limitation stated in bug 50195

diff --git a/docs/progGuideDB/implementation.xml b/docs/progGuideDB/implementation.xml
index 6e73e76655f8d3ae5ca0dc12f5ec31394db2f203..5f255700ed6e13763e7de7058909636496523408 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/progGuideDB/implementation.xml
+++ b/docs/progGuideDB/implementation.xml
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@
        Finally, note that one cannot define static fields or methods 
        on interfaces.
   </para>
+  <para>
+       When declaring methods on target types, only methods declared 
+       public are recognizable in the bytecode, so methods must be 
+       declared public to be overridden in any subtype or to be called 
+       from code in a later compile using the target type as a library.
+  </para>
   
   <para>
     Other AspectJ implementations, indeed, future versions of ajc, may