Applying AOP with a Web app

[oberon777]

I am pretty new to this, but here is what I would like to do.

I have a web app distributed as a *.war file. This file contains a bunch of servlets, some filters, and such. I would like to (1) run this app withing a servlet container and (2) instrument some of the web app's methods to collect statistics of various sorts.

Is this possible with JBoss/JBoss AOP? What steps are involved? Could you please point me at some documentaiton or anything at all that would allow me to get the basics working?

Thanks.
-Ben

[bill.burke]

http://docs.jboss.org/aop/1.1/aspect-framework/reference/en/html/running.html

You will have to follow the standalone directions on setting this up. (AOPC, bootclasspath for JDK 1.4, or use the javaagent for JDK 5).

FYI, Jsps are a special case. If you don't use the bootclasspath or javaagent load-time instrumentation procedure and instead decide to use the AOP Compiler, then you'll have to precompile your JSPS and then run AOPC on them.