Hi,

I'll be answering your question about DAJ and it's perplexing behavior of
using DJ, a runtime tool for compile time code generation.

Basically, DAJ compile and runs the user's code to generate the traversal
code. DAJ first generates some stubs that the user expects from DAJ. Then,
it compiles the user code with CreateClassGraph.java. It runs the compiled
code to generate the traversals. Then, compiles the user code with the
generated code.

During the execution of the user code in the third step, the code in
CreateClassGraph.java is an AspectJ aspect that intercepts the call to the
main method. It then uses DJ to create an instance of ClassGraph. Then, DAJ
starts to process the traversals. Thus, by executing the user code during
the compilation process, we can use DJ to calculate the traversals.

There's a pictorial representation of this process in the thesis defense
presentation. I believe that it's also in my final draft of the thesis.

I don't quite understand your question about the Class.forName("someclass").
When the constructor for ClassGraph is called, DJ uses Java Reflection to
construct a representation of the class graph for the current running
program. If you use the Java Reflection for your own purposes, it shouldn't
affect your code or vice versa.

John