1 <html> 2 <body> 3 Runtime Behavioral Reflection. 4 5 <p>(also recently known as interceptors or AOP?) 6 7 <p>This package enables a metaobject to trap method calls and field 8 accesses on a regular Java object. It provides a class 9 <code>Reflection</code>, which is a main module for implementing 10 runtime behavioral reflection. 11 It also provides 12 a class <code>Loader</code> and <code>Compiler</code> 13 as utilities for dynamically or statically 14 translating a regular class into a reflective class. 15 16 <p>An instance of the reflective class is associated with 17 a runtime metaobject and a runtime class metaobject, which control 18 the behavior of that instance. 19 The runtime 20 metaobject is created for every (base-level) instance but the 21 runtime class metaobject is created for every (base-level) class. 22 <code>Metaobject</code> is the root class of the runtime 23 metaobject and <code>ClassMetaobject</code> is the root class 24 of the runtime class metaobject. 25 26 <p>This package is provided as a sample implementation of the 27 reflection mechanism with Javassist. All the programs in this package 28 uses only the regular Javassist API; they never call any hidden 29 methods. 30 31 <p>The most significant class in this package is <code>Reflection</code>. 32 See the description of this class first. 33 34 </body> 35 </html> 36
