JBoss AOP 1.0.0 Final production release is now ready for download. Much thanks goes out to Kabir Khan and Marshall Culpepper for their hard work. They put a lot of their free time into JBoss AOP before we hired them in September, and took on a tremendous load when we did. This final release would not have been possible without them.

Some key features of JBoss AOP are:

• Eclipse IDE support. Check out our animated demo.
• Rich pointcut expressions. has, hasfield, typedef, JDK 5.0 annotation support, and many others.
• Dynamic AOP. Hot-deployment and per-instance interception.
• Class load time or precompiled transformations.
• Runs standalone or tightly integrated with application server.
• Annotation Compiler. Use JDK 5.0 annotations with a JDK 1.4 compiler.
• In-depth documentation. Reference Guide and a Why would I want to use AOP? User Guide.
• Rich aspect library of useful aspects that you can use in development out-of-the-box.
• • Transaction demarcation
  • Role-based security
  • Transactional Locking
  • Asynchronous invocations
  • Remote invocations
  • Many, many more...

For more information, check out the JBoss AOP website