Why did the AspectJ project move to eclipse.org?
From the message sent to users: AspectJ has come a long way — the language has stabilized; there are a rapidly growing number of commercial users; the 1.1 release is imminent and will include byte-code weaving and incremental compilation; and the tool support is now well integrated with several major IDEs. This growth of the community and the technology means that the original research and prototype development of AspectJ is complete. As such it is time for ongoing development and support of AspectJ to move outside of PARC. This has already started to happen; the Eclipse AJDT plug-in and the several books in preparation are examples. To encourage the growth of the AspectJ technology and community, PARC is transferring AspectJ to an openly-developed eclipse.org project. This project will include documentation, web site, mailing lists, bug database, and sources for the compiler. The command-line AspectJ compiler is still the primary tool produced by this project, in addition to APIs tha
