What is a short example of inter-type declarations in AspectJ which demonstrates the usefulness of the approach?

Question

I first thought about using ITDs to define the private static final Logger logger = ... for some unrelated cases, but it doesn\'t look enough like an obvious im

Answer 1

Take a look at Spring ROO. It is a rapid dev. env using Spring. I see it as a Ruby on Rails but in java with Spring ;-)

It use ITD a lot to generate getter, setter, toString etc... based on the attributes you define when you create your Class.

Spring Roo