Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5

Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5
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Most of the pointcut designators match based on signatures, and hence are unaffected by autoboxing. For example, a call to a method

   		public void foo(Integer i);

is not matched by a pointcut call(void foo(int)) since the signature declares a single Integer parameter, not an int.

The args pointcut designator is affected by autoboxing since it matches based on the runtime type of the arguments. AspectJ 5 applies autoboxing and unboxing in determining argument matching. In other words, args(Integer) will match any join point at which there is a single argument of type Integer or of type int.

args(Integer) and args(int) are equivalent
args(Float) and args(float) are equivalent
args(Double) and args(double) are equivalent
args(Short) and args(short) are equivalent
args(Byte) and args(byte) are equivalent
args(Long) and args(long) are equivalent
args(Boolean) and args(boolean) are equivalent

Autoboxing and unboxing are also applied when binding pointcut or advice parameters, for example:

   		pointcut foo(int i) : args(i);
   		
   		before(Integer i) : foo(i) {
   		  ...
   		}

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