AspectWerkz
utilizes bytecode modification to
weave your classes at project build-time, class load time or runtime.
It hooks in using standardized JVM level APIs. It has a rich and
highly orthogonal join point model. Aspects, advices and
introductions are written in plain Java and your target classes can
be regular POJOs. You have the possibility to add, remove and
re-structure advice as well as swapping the implementation of your
introductions at runtime. Your aspects can be defined using either
Java 5 annotations, Java 1.3/1.4 custom doclets or a simple XML
definition file.
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AspectJ
is a seamless aspect-oriented extension to the Java programming language.
A typical AspectJ compilation weaves a user specified set of types but
needs access to many many other types for resolving dependencies and
determining whether pointcuts match - for example it may need to know about
core types used from the JVM runtime jar file like java.lang.String.
For these types AspectJ doesn't need to load the instructions, it just
needs to quickly load the structure - What is the signature? Is it
generic? What are the methods? Do they have annotations? ASM is used
to quickly load this structural information.
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AgitarOne from Agitar automatically generates
JUnit tests for your legacy Java code. Agitar has been an early user of
ASM and we leverage the framework in all our products for bytecode
instrumentation for coverage, call interposing as well as for building
control and data flow graphs for higher level dynamic and static
analysis. ASM easily offers the lightest and fastest framework for
bytecode parsing and manipulation in our experience.
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BEA WebLogic Server 9 includes an
advanced diagnostic framework (WebLogic Diagnostic Framework) that
enables users to monitor a production system. ASM is used for high
performant bytecode enhancements tailored for WebLogic Server. Key
components of the server as well as custom ones can be observed and
have their performance metrics exported through a dedicated API,
third party tools, or through the management console.
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The goal of the Eclipse API Tools
project is to assist developers with API maintenance from release to
release, alerting developers when an API change might break existing clients.
The project uses ASM to to extract type, method, and field references from
.class files, and is also used to generate .class file stubs retaining all
API and reference information.
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Berkeley DB Java Edition
uses the ASM library to provide high performance object-data bindings.
By using ASM instead of reflection, binding overhead is no longer a factor in the overall
performance of the database application. ASM is very lightweight and has excellent
performance -- two characteristics of Berkeley DB Java Edition that we cannot compromise.
And ASM's license allows us to embed it without restrictions.
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Oracle TopLink
is a rich Java persistence solution. It provides a flexible,
productive, and high performing persistence engine that addresses Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
for Java classes, Container and Bean Managed (CMP, BMP) EJB 2 entity beans,
and most recently EJB 3.0's Java Persistence API (JPA).
In addition to solving ORM challenges TopLink also provides developers with a powerful Object-XML
solution implementing JAXB and provides mapping support for non-relational data stores
using the Java Connector Architecture.
TopLink leverages the ASM library to enhance the application's persistent entities
introducing transparent lazy loading and optimized change tracking.
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TopLink Essentials
is the Free Open Source edition of
Oracle TopLink.
It is focused on object-relational persistence implementing EJB 3.0's Java Persistence API (JPA).
TopLink Essentials is the reference implementation of JPA and is available through
GlassFish entity-persistence module
and is shipped within the
Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1,
Sun Application Server 9.0,
and is included and integrated in the Spring Framework 2.0 release.
TopLink Essentials leverages the ASM library to enhance persistent entities
introducing transparent lazy loading.
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Terracotta believes that enterprise
Java is too complex, and scaling out (or clustering) Java applications only makes it worse.
Terracotta believes that operational concerns should be clearly separated from business logic.
The "Terracotta Virtualization Server" uses byte-code modification to layer in
enterprise-class infrastructure services, such as clustering and caching,
into applications transparently at runtime, freeing the developer to focus on
implementing the business logic with their framework of choice,
using simple, single JVM, natural Java.
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RIFE relies on ASM for
many of its core features. For example its templating engine generates regular Java
classes at runtime without resorting to Java compilation of sources,
POJOs can remain clean and still be augmented through meta-data by merging
sibling classes together and correctly keeping related instances in sync,
RIFE/Continuations
implements partial JVM continuations to provide a stateful flow
specification mechanism in pure Java. Using this allows you to benefit from
all the available development tools for the platform and to leverage
expressiveness of the Java language to intuitively create complex
application flows.
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WindowBuilder Pro
is a powerful and easy to use bidirectional Java GUI designer based on
Eclipse SWT technology. It makes it very easy to create Java GUI (Swing and SWT),
Eclipse RCP and GWT/Ajax applications without spending a lot of time writing
code to display forms. ASM is an important low level component of
WindowBuilder that allows high performance bytecode enhancements,
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Javeleon
is a novel dynamic updating system that is transparent to the Java language and
runs on top of a standard unmodified JVM. It allows dynamic type-safe updates of
code as well as thread-safe lazy state migration, thus preserving live object
instances. Javeleon is intentionally designed to mimic the traditional off-line
updating scheme. Hence, binary incompatible updates can be successfully carried
out if and only if the type conflict is resolved and the conflicting code has
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Dr. Garbage
offers several Eclipse plugins, in which ASM library is used
for parsing of class files and for generation of control flow graph
visualizations. The Bytecode
Visualizer is a powerful class file viewer and bytecode debugger.
Single instruction step and control flow graph shown alongside of any
method's bytecode are unique to this product.
The Sourcecode
Visualizer draws a control flow graph alongside of Java source code.
The Control
Flow Graph Factory generates control flow graphs from Java source
or bytecode, allows for editing them and exporting them to several
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EclipseME
is a set of Eclipse plugins to help develop J2ME MIDlets.
EclipseME does the "grunt work" of connecting Wireless Toolkits
to the Eclipse development environment, allowing you to focus on
developing your application, rather than worrying about the
special needs of J2ME development. EclipseME provides a 100%
pure Java CDLC preverifier implementation built using ASM, providing
significantly better diagnostics, performance and platform-independence.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. used ASM to
build an emulation or hosting environment, currently in prototype
form, for running Java ME applications (Connected Device Configuration
/ Foundation Profile / Personal Basis Profile) on top of a compliant
Java SE implementation. The hosting environment supports generic rules
for interposing on various class, method, constructor, and field
references and calls, and currently contains all of the rules required
to pass the CDC and PBP TCKs. ASM was invaluable in supplying advanced
techniques such as dataflow over bytecodes which made it straightforward to
build several of the rewrite rules in the hosting environment.
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MicroEmulator is a pure Java
implementation of Java ME in Java SE. It is using ASM to adapt
the Java ME application (MIDlet) to Standard and Web Start Java environment.
This includes enforcement or resource loading order, access to Java
system properties, application log redirection and also injecting
Thread creation monitoring in the emulated environment.
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Cobertura
is a free Java tool that calculates the percentage of code accessed by
tests. It can be used to identify which parts of your Java program are
lacking test coverage. Since version 1.1, Cobertura switched "the
instrumentation classes to use ASM instead of Apache BCEL. There are
three benefits to this: BCEL was throwing exceptions with some source
code compiled with JDK 1.5--ASM works fine. ASM is licensed under the
revised BSD license, which is compatable with the GPL, which allows us
to remove the questionable exception for BCEL from the license.
Instrumentation is about 5 times faster with ASM than BCEL."
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CGLIB is a powerful,
high performance and quality Code Generation Library.
It is used to extend JAVA classes and implement interfaces at runtime.
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dynaop is a proxy-based Aspect-Oriented
Programming (AOP) framework, which enhances Object-Oriented (OO)
design in the following areas: code reuse, decomposition,
dependency reduction.
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Pat Niemeyer said: "I'm very excited about ASM because it's
exactly what I need to finish BeanShell scripted
classes... [...] I didn't want to use BCEL because it's huge
relative to BeanShell (my core language is about 100K). All I
really need is the ability to generate a proxy class for an
arbitrary type (delegate all the methods to a reflective style
handler) which I believe will now be easy.
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Clojure is a dynamic programming
language that targets the JVM. Clojure is a functional dialect of Lisp,
combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting
language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
Clojure dynamically compiles to bytecode in memory using ASM,
leveraging its speed and small size.
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Coroutines
are program components that generalize subroutines to allow multiple
entry points for suspending and resuming execution at certain locations.
While in many modern languages coroutines are built-in (Python being the
most notable example) or similar, often simplified, constructs are
provided (like C#'s yield), Java lacks any coroutine support - even in
this simplified form. This project provides coroutines on bytecode level
using instrumentation to rearrange user code.
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fun4j brings functional programming to
the JVM. It's a framework that integrates major concepts from functional
programming into the Java Platform. At its core there is a lambda-to-JVM
bytecode compiler. Thanks to some optimization techniques like tail code
optimization (TCO) the compiler produces code that runs as fast as hand
optimized Java code. The compiler uses the excellent Java bytecode
assembler ASM.
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Groovy is a new agile
dynamic language for the JVM combining lots of great features
from languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk and making them
available to the Java developers using a Java-like syntax.
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Jamaica
is a JVM Macro Assembler language. Its compiler uses a JavaClassCreator facade to delegate JVM class
creation; currently it supports ASM and BCEL. "I like ASM," said
James Huang, the author of Jamaica and JudoScript, "this is a JVM
class creation API done right. For redistributing software, the
compactness of ASM API is a great advantage, too."
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JRuby is an implementation of
the Ruby programming language that runs on the JVM. JRuby uses ASM
extensively in its Ruby compiler and when generating callable method handles
for binding Java code to Ruby method names.
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Jython is an implementation of the
Python programming language for the JVM. Jython uses ASM both to compile
Python source to bytecode and to generate the proxies for calling Java
from Jython.
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NetLogo is a programming
language and modeling environment for simulating natural and social
phenomena. It uses ASM to partially compile NetLogo code into Java
byte code.
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Open Quark
includes CAL: a general purpose, lazy, strongly-typed, functional
language. CAL compiles directly to Java virtual machine bytecodes using
ASM. CAL can use any Java class, method, field or constructor. Open
Quark's Java APIs allow clients to programmatically create and call CAL
functions. This enables logic best expressed in CAL, such as domain
specific languages and data transformations, to be combined with regular
object-oriented Java application logic. Open Quark includes a visual
programming tool called the Gem Cutter, and a CAL Eclipse Plug-in. Open
Quark is available for download with sources under a BSD license. The
CAL Eclipse Plug-in is available under the Eclipse Public License v1.0.
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WebSphere sMash is an agile
development environment leveraging scripting runtimes such as Groovy
and PHP, and optimized for producing REST-style services, integration,
mash-ups, and rich Web interfaces.
ASM is used in compiler that compiles PHP scripts to Java bytecode.
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ProActive is a Java library for parallel,
distributed, and concurrent computing, also featuring mobility and
security in a uniform framework. With a reduced set of simple
primitives, ProActive provides a comprehensive API allowing to
simplify the programming of applications that are distributed on
Local Area Network (LAN), on cluster of workstations, or on
Internet Grids. ProActive uses ASM to dynamically generate stub
and proxy classes.
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Fractal is a general
software composition framework that supports component-based
programming, including components (type) definition,
configuration, composition and administration. The reference
implementation of Fractal uses ASM to generate interceptor
classes, to merge classes for optimization purposes, and to
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The EasyBeans
is an open source implementation by ObjectWeb of the EJB3 container specification.
It uses ASM in many cases: for the annotations processing (to detect @Stateless,
@Stateful, etc classes or to search annotations on fields/methods),
to manage the new EJB3 interceptors (to allow to intercept business methods or
to be notified of some lifecycle events), or for the dependency injection part
(to add a method which do the job in the bean's class).
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Ebean
is a open source ORM persistence layer - simplyfing Object Relational Mapping
for Java Developers. It provides the functionality of the Java Persistence API
(EJB3 Persistence) without requiring a container. It uses JPA annotated Entity
Beans and provides cascading save/delete, batching, caching, clustering without
requiring session objects (EntityManager). Ebean uses ASM to enhance the Entity
Beans to support transparent "Lazy Loading" and "Old Values Creation".
For performance reasons ASM is also used to generate code to replace standard
reflection for bean getter and setter methods.
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JDBCPersistence is an Object-Relational mapping
persistence framework. It differs from its peers in that it generates
the bytecode required to map a class to a table. It has been created
with the following requirements in mind: be fast to load, support
CLOBs and BLOBs, load persistent objects from java.sql.ResultSet,
have compact API, have minimal dependencies on other projects,
support configuration via API.
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JPOX
provides transparent persistence of Java objects to heterogeneous datastores.
It is a fully-compliant implementation of the JDO1 and JDO2 standards.
JPOX 1.2 also implements the JPA1 specification of persistence, along with the OGC
Simple Feature Specification for geometric object persistence.
JPOX 1.2 and later use ASM in its byte-code enhancer, injecting code into
persisted classes allowing detection of changes to fields, and to allow for
lazy loading of field values.
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Apache OpenEJB
is an embeddable and lightweight EJB 3.0 implementation that can be used as a
standalone server or embedded into any application.
ASM is used extensively for reading annotations allowing for the discovery
of EJB 3.0 annotated beans without the security risks and memory usage
associated with excessive classloading. We also employ ASM to dynamically
generate byte code to adapt older CMP 1.1 or 2.x beans into the newer,
more robust, EJB 3.0 Entity beans that leverage the Java Persistence API (JPA)
allowing for dynamic and automatic migration from CMP to JPA.
ASM is also used for supporting the new EJB 3.1 no-interface view of Session beans
for a more "against the metal" proxy involving dynamic subclassing the bean.
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Speedo is an open source implementation of the
JDO specification. Speedo uses ASM to enhance the bytecode of
persistent classes (i.e. mainly to replace access field instructions
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The Java Interactive Profiler
is a code profiler that is written in 100% Java. JIP allows the developer
to start and stop profiling interactively while the target program
is running. In addition, JIP lets the developer filter out classes
and packages so that the resulting profile is less cluttered. By using
the Java5 agent interface, this is accompilshed without the need to
recomple or have special libraries included with the target program.
"ASM is a great product that was instrumental in allowing me to develop
JIP", writes Andrew Wilcox, JIP's creator. "It's lightweight, easy to use
and really allowed me to focus on the product I was creating rather than
the details of byte code enhancement."
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ByCounter
is a lightweight approach for exact runtime counting of executed
bytecode instructions and method invocations. ByCounter significantly
reduces total counting costs by instrumenting only the application
bytecode and not the JVM, and it can be used without modifications on
any JVM.
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Limpid Log
is a revolutionary logging system.
You do not need to hard code log statements. At runtime, you can
register a class of interest and the system will log all important
information about the class. When you are done, you can de-register
the class and the class will not generate any log information anymore.
Limpid Log is an open source program.
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SonarJ
is an innovative tool, which helps you to manage and monitor the
logical architecture and the technical quality of your Java projects.
It allows you to define a logical architecture and map it to your system.
By analyzing all the dependencies in your system it can efficiently
identify all architecture violations (unwanted dependencies) and
cyclic dependencies. Most of the dependency information is gathered by
analyzing the compiled class files. For this purpose ASM is used and
we are very pleased by the ease of use, the low overhead and the
compelling performance of this library.
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TamiFlex
is a tool suite to facilitate static analyses of Java programs
that use reflection and custom class loaders. The suite consists
of two agents that use the java.lang.instrument API, one Play-out
Agent and one Play-in Agent. The Play-out Agent allows you to
monitor a Java program using any Java-6 compliant JVM (dumping a
reflection trace file, providing information about reflective calls
on the program run, etc). With the Play-in Agent you can cause the
virtual machine to load classes from a specified directory instead
of the default ones. This is useful for replacing classes by
statically optimized classes, whatever the classpath.
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Kirill Grouchnikov said about using ASM in
Substance and
Laf-Widget projects:
"ASM is used during build process - every compiled UI delegate is changed to "inject" the
additional functionality
that is common to all 40+ classes. This could have been done manually, of course, but then
it would be a mess to maintain in Substance and a major pain to adopt in
other LAFs. I considered a few alternatives such as dynamic proxies and
AOP and eventually decided to try ASM. Bytecode instrumentation has its disadvantages,
but at this moment it's the lesser of evils and
ASMifierClassVisitor
was a definite winner for me".
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SemmleCode is a free Eclipse plugin that
helps computing metrics, finding bugs and checking coding conventions. All
these tasks are code queries in the plugin's library of predefined rules and
metrics. Queries in SemmleCode are defined in an object-oriented query
language that is concise and intuitive. Customizing existing queries or
writing new ones for your own projects and frameworks is a simple task.
SemmleCode works by storing Java codebases in a relational database. We use
ASM to traverse bytecode when extracting the structure of a program to store
in the database different program elements and relations between them. In
our experience ASM has excellent performance and is the most compatible open
source library for Java bytecode analysis.
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Structure101
lets you control the structural complexity of your code-base and ensure
that it conforms to a defined architecture, making it less costly and
risky to develop, modify, test, and deploy. Structure101 exposes structure,
lets you define how it should be, communicate this to the team and know when
architecture deviations make it into the mainline. A rich client, web application,
RSS feeds and IDE plug-ins provide the right information at the right time to make
architectural control a cinch on any project or process, local or distributed.
Structure101 is both rich and easy.
Ian Sutton, Chief Architect, Headway Software, said: "Byte-code parsing
is key to structure101, with release 3 we took a look at all the options
available to us to replace our own parser. In the end, it was an easy decision
to go with ASM - for outstanding performance and language feature support".
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JCarder is an open source tool for
finding potential deadlocks in concurrent multi-threaded Java programs.
It uses ASM to efficiently insert probes into the program under test
with minimal overhead.
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BTrace is a safe, dynamic
tracing system for the Java platform. BTrace works by dynamically
bytecode instrumenting (BCI) .class files of running a Java application
to insert tracing code. The tracing code is expressed in Java programming
language. BTrace uses ASM 3.0 to instrument .class files at runtime. On
OpenSolaris platform, there is integration with OpenSolaris DTrace
(dynamic tracing for Solaris OS and applications) as well. It is
possible to raise DTrace probes from BTrace code and also execute an
associated D-script. There is a command line access as well as GUI
access to BTrace. VisualVM
is all-in-one troubleshooting tool for Java. VisualVM supports plugin
model to extend it's capabilities. A VisualVM plugin for BTrace is
being developed. It will be available soon.
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Byteman is a bytecode injection
tool which simplifies development of tests for Java applications using a
technique called fault injection. Byteman works by inserting scripted side
effects into application code, Test scripts may include actions which
create and propagate conditions appropriate to the test scenario.
Or they may simply verify correct execution of the application program.
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Retrotranslator
is a Java bytecode transformer that translates Java classes compiled with JDK 5.0
into classes that can be run on JVM 1.4.
Thanks to the ASM framework it is able to analyze and transform
classes in an easy and clear way without sacrificing performance.
Features supported on JRE 1.4: generics, annotations, reflection on
generics and annotations, enums, autoboxing, for-each loop,
varargs, covariant return types, formatted output, static import,
concurrency utilities, collections framework enhancements.
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R-OSGi
is a technology to allow transparent access to remote services in OSGi frameworks.
The idea is to allow the distribution of arbitrary OSGi services in networks with
little management, such as ad-hoc networks.
We use ASM to generate dynamic proxy bundles for remote services at runtime.
One of our intended areas for applications is the world of mobile and embedded devices.
The lightweight design of ASM is ideal for the bytecode manipulations that we require on
the client side and the static code analysis on the service provider side.
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