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Using the Visualizer

 

If this is the first time you have used the visualizer, switch to the visualization perspective by selection Window -> Open Perspective -> Other… and then “Aspect Visualization.”

 

 

The visualization perspective opens:

 

 

You can switch between the Java and Aspect Visualization perspectives using the perspective icons in the left-hand margin (highlighted).

 

To start visualizing, click on a project or package in the projects / packages views to see a visualisation for that project / package. The aspects affecting the selected item appear in the aspect visualizer menu. You can turn them and and off in the view by selecting and deselecting them.

 

 

The icons in the visualiser toolbar perform the following functions (in left to right order) :

 

Double-clicking on any advice marker (on one of the bars) opens the editor on the advised type at the appropriate point.