| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| Metalevel |
An interface to access a metaobject and a class metaobject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| ClassMetaobject |
A runtime class metaobject.
|
| Compiler |
A bytecode translator for reflection.
|
| Loader |
A class loader for reflection.
|
| Metaobject |
A runtime metaobject.
|
| Reflection |
The class implementing the behavioral reflection mechanism.
|
| Sample |
A template used for defining a reflective class.
|
| Exception | Description |
|---|---|
| CannotCreateException |
Signals that
ClassMetaobject.newInstance() fails. |
| CannotInvokeException |
Thrown when method invocation using the reflection API has thrown
an exception.
|
| CannotReflectException |
Thrown by
makeReflective() in Reflection
when there is an attempt to reflect
a class that is either an interface or a subclass of
either ClassMetaobject or Metaobject. |
(also recently known as interceptors or AOP?)
This package enables a metaobject to trap method calls and field
accesses on a regular Java object. It provides a class
Reflection, which is a main module for implementing
runtime behavioral reflection.
It also provides
a class Loader and Compiler
as utilities for dynamically or statically
translating a regular class into a reflective class.
An instance of the reflective class is associated with
a runtime metaobject and a runtime class metaobject, which control
the behavior of that instance.
The runtime
metaobject is created for every (base-level) instance but the
runtime class metaobject is created for every (base-level) class.
Metaobject is the root class of the runtime
metaobject and ClassMetaobject is the root class
of the runtime class metaobject.
This package is provided as a sample implementation of the reflection mechanism with Javassist. All the programs in this package uses only the regular Javassist API; they never call any hidden methods.
The most significant class in this package is Reflection.
See the description of this class first.
Javassist, a Java-bytecode translator toolkit.
Copyright (C) 1999- Shigeru Chiba. All Rights Reserved.