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I have some great news for the Spring and the Spring AOP community. In October, Adrian Colyer, head of the AspectJ project, will be joining Interface21, the premier source for Spring Framework training, consulting, and support.

Here's an eWeek article describing Adrian's move, as well as Adrian's own blog entry on the subject.

Here's Rod Johnson's announcement from the forums:

I am pleased to announce that AspectJ lead Adrian Colyer is joining Interface21.

Adrian will remain as AspectJ lead, but will also focus much more on Spring. Adrian and Rob and I are working together to enhance the integration between Spring and AspectJ, and I also expect Adrian to make a significant contribution to Spring AOP.

Some Spring/AspectJ integration features on the way:

- Ability to target Spring advice using the AspectJ pointcut expression language, entirely within the Spring AOP proxy-based model and with no requirement to use the AspectJ compiler

- Ability to annotate objects to enable AspectJ to dependency inject them using a Spring bean definition, even if they are not instantiated by the Spring container

- Ability for Spring to process AspectJ 5 annotations, to provide a subset of the same programming model, again within a proxy-based model.

Note that since Spring 1.1 it has been possible to dependency inject AspectJ aspects using Spring IoC, giving them full access to Spring-managed services.

Adrian is an outstanding technologist, with strong middleware credentials in his 13 years at IBM. I think this is good news for the Spring community and AOP in general.

Rod