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diff --git a/docs/dist/doc/porting.html b/docs/dist/doc/porting.html index d5c693d12..753ab53d9 100644 --- a/docs/dist/doc/porting.html +++ b/docs/dist/doc/porting.html @@ -172,6 +172,27 @@ For more information, see bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=47754">47754</a>. </p> +<p><b>Watch for problems due to incompatible BCEL versions.</b> +AspectJ 1.2 includes a different version of BCEL than AspectJ 1.1. If you have the older +version of BCEL available earlier on your classpath than the version included in the +1.2 aspectjtools.jar then you will see errors like: + +<pre> +C:\work\test\TestAspect.aj error Internal compiler error +java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory. +createNewArray(Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Type;S)Lorg/apache/bcel/generic/Instruction; +</pre> + +This typically happens because the old version of BCEL has been included as a standard +extension in your JVM configuration. Ensure you have removed it from jre/lib/ext +under your JDK installation. + +<p>For more information, see bugs including + <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=60389">60389</a>, + <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=59921">59921</a>. +</p> + + <h2><a name="pre-1.1">Porting pre-1.1 code to AspectJ 1.1</a></h2> <a href="README-11.html">README-11.html</a> contains a discussion of the language changes from 1.0 to 1.1. The high points: |