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Reflection in Java Convention Ctr — Room 5 Ira Forman, IBM Nate Forman, Liaison Technology |
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Wednesday Afternoon, Half Day |
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Reflection in Java Convention Ctr — Room 5 Ira Forman, IBM Nate Forman, Liaison Technology |
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Attendee Background: An attendee must be a competent Java programmer. Presenters: Dr. Ira R. Forman works for IBM in Austin. As a member of IBM’s Object Technology Products Group, which produced the SOMobjects Toolkit, he worked on the SOM Metaclass Framework. He started working in the area of object-oriented programming in 1984, when he worked at ITT Programming Technology Center. Forman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, where he studied under Harlan Mills. Forman’s specialties are object-oriented programming, distributed systems, and object composition. He is the coauthor of two books, Interacting Processes: A Multiparty Approach to Coordinated Distributed Programming and Putting Metaclasses to Work: A New Dimension in Object-Oriented Programming. Nate Forman works for Liaison Technology where he designs and programs application frameworks for their products. His specialties are patterns and object-oriented programming. Forman holds a M.S.E. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Cornell University.
The use of reflection is an important technique for improving productivity. Reflection facilitates development of programs that are easily adapted to requirement changes. With reflection one can develop software engineering tools that examine or produce code. Reflection facilitates testing and problem determination by facilitating the automation of more tedious tasks. In general, reflection improves the flexibility, extensibility, and reusability of one’s code. The Java language contains a highly effective reflection facility. The tutorial explains the concept of reflection, the Java metaobjects (including both introspective and intercessional interfaces), the proxy class, and dynamic compilation and class loading. The limits of Java reflection are addressed in the context of what reflection is capable of in general. In addition, the tutorial demonstrates the efficacy of the Java reflection facility for solving practical problems. Such problems include: program/application testing, generation of code, inspection of code, and use of dynamic class loading in a framework for application extension.
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