Central Florida Software Symposium
June 24 - 26, 2005 - Orlando, FL
Introduction to Java Reflection
Reflection is writing code that manipulates itself. Well-written reflective code automates a broad class of repetitive, error-prone programming tasks. Poorly-written reflective code obfuscates programs and destroys the benefits of the type system. We'll focus on the former.
REFLECTIVE TASKS COVERED IN THIS TALK
- Discovering class members
- Dynamically accessing fields, methods, and constructors
- Bypassing the Java language protection modifiers
- Converting between objects, XML, and relational data
- Generating new classes at runtime
- Intercepting method calls and simple aspects
- The reflection security model
About Stuart Halloway
Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.
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