The purpose of this document is to outline how the JBoss Aop IDE eclipse plug-in can help increase productivity when writing Aop applications with eclipse. A workable knowledge of the basics of AOP generally, and JBoss AOP specifically, is assumed.

The project page for JBoss Aop is available at http://www.jboss.org/products/aop, along with much documentation.

The AOP IDE attempts to make creating, building, and testing aop applications much easier. It provides most of its assistance visually, through both of its views (Aspect Manager View, and Advised Members View), as well as markers in editors. An assortment of dialogs and actions attempt to make creating type expressions or method expressions easier as well.

The plug-in also provides an incremental builder so that testing your application can proceed as painlessly as possible.