abc is a joint project between the Programming Tools Group at Oxford University, UK and the Sable Research Group at McGill University, Quebec.

abc is built on a number of existing efforts:

• AspectJ language design <http://www.aspectj.org>
• ajc runtime library and testing harness <http://www.aspectj.org>
• JastAdd, an exttensible compiler construction framework <http://jastadd.org>
• Polyglot, an extensible compiler framework for Java <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/polyglot/>
• Soot, a Java optimisation framework <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/>
• Jedd, a Java extension for Decision Diagrams <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/jedd/>
• Paddle, a BDD-based analysis toolkit for Java <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/paddle>
• JavaBDD, a BDD package for Java <http://javabdd.sourceforge.net/>

In alphabetical order of surname, the following people have contributed directly to abc:

Chris Allan <christopher.allan at somerville.oxford.ac.uk>

• Original tracematches design

Pavel Avgustinov <pavel.avgustinov at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>

• Designed and implemented the abc test harness
• Implemented privileged aspects along with a generic accessor method infrastructure
• Re-wrote the lexer to make an LGPL'd version
• Improved Soot's handling of large methods
• Co-implemented tracematches in abc
• Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)

Aske Simon Christensen <aske at brics.dk>

• Designed the overall compiler structure, and the connection between the frontend and backend
• Designed and implemented the pattern matcher
• Implemented declare parents and declare precedence

Torbjorn Ekman <torbjorn.ekman at comlab.ox.ac.uk>

• Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)

Christopher Goard <cgoard at cs.mcgill.ca>

• prototype implementation of cflow counters in ajc

Laurie Hendren <hendren at sable.mcgill.ca>

• Project leader (McGill)
• Grammar, Scanner and Parser
• Initial weaver

John Jorgensen <jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca>

• Soot support

Sascha Kuzins <sascha.kuzins at comlab.ox.ac.uk>

• Designed and implemented the around weaver

Jennifer Lhotak <jlhotak at sable.mcgill.ca>

• Java to Jimple
• initial weaver

Ondrej Lhotak <olhotak at sable.mcgill.ca>

• initial weaver
• Work on Soot class and method handling
• interprocedural cflow analyses

Oege de Moor <oege at comlab.ox.ac.uk>

• Project leader
• Implemented frontend
• Designed and implemented intertype weaver
• Designed and implemented large parts of the tracematch analyses

Neil Ongkingco

• Designed and implemented open modules for AspectJ.

Jane Panangaden

• Poinsettiacus logo design
• General consultant

Damien Sereni <dsereni at comlab.ox.ac.uk>

• Simple cflow optimisations (counters, instance sharing)

Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>

• Designed and implemented pointcut matcher
• Implemented large portions of the weaver
• Various minor frontend fixes
• Some small backend optimisations
• Work on Soot class handling

Julian Tibble <julian.tibble at worcester.oxford.ac.uk>

• EAJ language
• Co-implemented tracematches in abc
• Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)