I found something interesting today at work while playing with Groovy. By default, the StreamingMarkupBuilder builds empty tags like this:

<someTag />

but an external system that uses our API needs the tags to be expanded like this:

<someTag></someTag>

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Groovy is great for developers because of its simple scripting feel, but in order to compile to java bytecode, it adds lots of bloat at compile time to make the magic work. When mixing it with AspectJ's post-compile binary weaving, it will cause lots of unwanted methods to be caught by your AspectJ Advice. I wrote a pointcut to help eliminate...

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