[Soot-list] Newbie's question

[Chris Pickett]

Hi Sunny,

On Thu, April 20, 2006 2:22 pm, Sunny wrote:
> Now given these many choices (JPDA, AspectJ, Soot, ASM...), I think Soot
> might be a better one. I have read a few Soot tutorials and skimmed its
> APIs, and found it can do various types of program analysis. It seems
> that I have to abandon AspectJ and turn to Soot. But before delving into
> deeper, I need to know more about what it can do (eg, I need to make sure
> while I gain certain benefits from Soot, I won't lose other functionality
> that AspectJ provides). Here I prepared a few questions:

I think I said this before, but I guess it wasn't clear.  Soot is the
back-end to `abc', the AspectBench Compiler for AspectJ.  Right now you
are probably using `ajc', IBM's compiler for AspectJ.

So, in fact, you can quite possibly keep using AspectJ but also use Soot
for analysis.  I don't think you need to give AspectJ up at all.  Just
start looking at abc, and remember that Soot is what does the compilation
to Java bytecode underneath.

Cheers,
Chris