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Summary of implementation limitations carefully worded to avoid the term "limitation" since Erik took it out. Proposed without objection on the mail list.
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initialization, or to delegate to a <literal>this</literal>
constructor if necessary.
</para>
-
</sect2>
-
-
</sect1>
+<sect1>
+ <title>Summary of implementation requirements</title>
+ <para>
+ This summarizes the requirements of our implementation of AspectJ.
+ For more details, see the relevant sections of this guide.
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The invoking code must be under the control of ajc
+ for the following join points:</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>call join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>get join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>set join point</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The declaring/target code must be under the control of ajc
+ for the following join points and inter-type declarations:</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>execution join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>adviceexecution join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>handler join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>initialization join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>preinitialiaztion join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>staticinitialization join point</listitem>
+ <listitem>perthis aspect</listitem>
+ <listitem>pertarget aspect</listitem>
+ <listitem>declare parents</listitem>
+ <listitem>declare method or field (see interface caveats below)</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Implementation Caveats</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The initialization and preinitialization join points
+ do not support around advice</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The handler join point does not support...</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>after advice</listitem>
+ <listitem>around advice</listitem>
+ <listitem>cflow(handler(..))</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Declaring members on an interface in an aspect affects only
+ the topmost implementing classes the implementation controls.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>cflow and cflowbelow pointcuts work within a single thread.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
</appendix>
+
+