This chapter consists of very short snippets of AspectJ code, typically pointcuts, that are particularly evocative or useful. This section is a work in progress. Here's an example of how to enfore a rule that code in the java.sql package can only be used from one particular package in your system. This doesn't require any access to code in the java.sql package. Any call to an instance of a subtype of AbstractFacade whose class is not exactly equal to AbstractFacade: If AbstractFacade is an abstract class or an interface, then every instance must be of a subtype and you can replace this with: Any call to a method which is defined by a subtype of AbstractFacade, but which isn't defined by the type AbstractFacade itself: The execution of a method that is defined in the source code for a type that is a subtype of AbstractFacade but not in AbstractFacade itself: