[Soot-list] Newbie's question

[Sunny]

Many thanks to Michael and Chris!

It is a very good to be able to use both AspectJ and Soot, which would save
me a lot of work. I did not know I could do that before :-).

Yes, I did check abc but I did not find an Eclipse plugin of it. In fact, it
would be perfect if I could use a single tool to do all the things that I
need. And I think abc is a promising one. However, my project does require
to run everything within Eclipse (right now I am using ibm AJDT). Do you
know if I can use abc as an eclipse plugin?

Right now I think it is time to dig into the details on how to
instrument for local set/get statements and how to integrate the results
from both Soot and AspectJ.

Once again, thank you very much for your help.

Sunny

On 4/21/06, Chris Pickett <chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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