Turn that into a bug/enh request?  At the moment I’m trying to tie up some 
loose ends and get a 1.9.3 done - and help AJDT a little - this thread needs 
more concentrated brainpower :)

Cheers,
Andy

> On Feb 18, 2019, at 6:46 PM, Alexander Kriegisch <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andy.
> 
> In my answer [1] to a StackOverflow question I tried to explain to the 
> original poster why he cannot use a concrete type in order to limit method 
> parameter matching for a method defined in a generic supertype. I also showed 
> him a workaround using the concrete type in 'args()' because then he can 
> utilise runtime information. I also pointed him to the AJ generics manual 
> [2]. I am not a generics expert, but I do see with javap that, as I expected, 
> the method in question actually has an Object parameter in the byte code. 
> Anyway, the OP has a point there, saying that his derived type specifies the 
> concrete type for the generic supertype, but of course he does not override 
> the method from the generic superclass.
> 
> If you compile my attached sample code (it is an Eclipse project) you see 
> that my workaround pointcut works, but if you use javap on both abstract 
> supertypes AbstractIntegerConverter and AbstractStringConverter you also see 
> that aspect code for the around advice is generated for both of them because 
> there is no way I know of to limit the pointcut any further.
> 
> My question is: Do you think it would be possible to utilise the type 
> information present in the subclasses IntegerToStringConverter and 
> StringToIntegerConverter (javap shows there is information present) in order 
> to limit bytecode weaving to what is actually the pointcut's target, i.e. 
> extending generics functionality in AspectJ to utilise existing type 
> information in order to enable more specific pointcuts and eliminate the need 
> to use runtime types via args(), target() or this()?
> 
> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/54730041/1082681
> [2] 
> https://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/next/adk15notebook/generics-inAspectJ5.html
> -- 
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