http://www.aspectj.org: The AspectJ weaver introduces advices to java classes
  • Andy Clement 
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 * Copyright (c) 2002 Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (PARC).
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 *  
 * Contributors: 
 *     PARC     initial implementation 
 * ******************************************************************/

package org.aspectj.weaver;


An IClassWeaver is initialized with a class (a type, really, but let's ignore that for now) and a world, and has one method that
actually weaves the contents of the world into the class implementation.

/**
 * An IClassWeaver is initialized with a class (a type, really, but let's ignore that for now) and a world, and has one method that
 * actually weaves the contents of the world into the class implementation.
 */

public interface IClassWeaver {

	
perform the weaving.

Returns:true if the class is changed by the weaving, false otherwise.
/**
	 * perform the weaving.
	 * 
	 * @return <code>true</code> if the class is changed by the weaving, <code>false</code> otherwise.
	 */
	boolean weave();
}