History and Contributors
Gregor Kiczales started and led the Xerox PARC team that eventually developed AspectJ; he coined the term "crosscutting". Fourth on the team, Chris Maeda coined the term "aspect-oriented programming." Jim Hugunin and Erik Hilsdale (Xerox PARC team members 12 and 13) were the original compiler and weaver engineers, Mik Kersten implemented the IDE integration and started the Eclipse AJDT project with Adrian Colyer (current lead of the AspectJ project) and Andrew Clement (current compiler engineer).
Jonas Boner and Alex Vasseur engineered the AspectWerkz project, and later contributed to the AspectJ project when it merged in the AspectWerkz annotation style and load-time weaving support.
The AspectBench Compiler was developed and is being maintained as a joint effort of the Programming Tools Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, the Sable Research Group at McGill University and the Institute for Basic Research in Computer Science (BRICS).
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