= The AspectJ^TM^ 5 Development Kit Developer's Notebook
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_by the AspectJ Team_

_Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Contributors. All rights reserved._

This guide describes the changes to the AspectJ language in AspectJ 5. These include support for Java 5 features,
support for an annotation-based development style for aspects and new reflection and tools APIs. If you are new to
AspectJ, we recommend you start by reading the programming guide.

**Table of Contents**

* xref:joinpointsignatures.adoc[Join Point Signatures]
* xref:annotations.adoc[Annotations]
* xref:generics.adoc[Generics]
* xref:autoboxing.adoc[Autoboxing and Unboxing]
* xref:covariance.adoc[Covariance]
* xref:varargs.adoc[Varargs]
* xref:enumeratedtypes.adoc[Enumerated Types]
* xref:pertypewithin.adoc[The `pertypewithin` Aspect Instantiation Model]
* xref:ataspectj.adoc[An Annotation Based Development Style]
* xref:reflection.adoc[New Reflection Interfaces]
* xref:miscellaneous.adoc[Other Changes in AspectJ 5]
* xref:ltw.adoc[Load-Time Weaving]
* xref:grammar.adoc[A Grammar for the AspectJ 5 Language]