AspectJ Installation Instructions

These notes are for MS Windows 9x.
You should be able to do something similar for a different OS.

First install JDK 1.2 or 1.3. ( Available from java.sun.com )

Set your Path to include the bin directory (probably something like C:\jdk1.3\bin ). Next download aspectj07b9-tools.jar from www.aspectj.org or from the course downloads page. In Netscape, you will need to right-click the filename and select "Save Link As ..." in order to download the file.

Now, you should be able to simply double-click the file in Windows Explorer, or cd to that directory and type

  jar -jar aspectj07b9-tools.jar 
in a command window.

You can similarly download and install the documentation.

Complete the installation by following the directions in README-TOOLS.html, which should now reside in the directory in which you installed aspectJ. You probably also want to add . (the current directory) to your CLASSPATH.

You should now be ready to try the HellloWorld example outlined in Getting Started with AspectJ.