CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2007/ch1 1c JF

Features of Reflection

Reflection allows programs to act in a more "intelligent" way by providing the ability to answer questions about what an object or class knows or does and modify behavior based on those answers [3]. Some of the features of reflection are that an object knows what type it is and what methods it contains, call methods dynamically, have objects change their state based on a change of state of another object, and trace the execution of your program.

References

[1] Reflection-Oriented Programming

[2] Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages

[3] Evolving a Reflective Language Lessons Learned from Implementing Traits