Reflections on Java Reflection (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted March 19, 2007 by cook]

Russ Olsen discusses Java Reflection on O'Reilly. "In ordinary life, a reflection is what you see when you look in the mirror. In the world of programming, reflection is what you call it when a program looks at and possibly even modifies its own structure. The Java reflection API allows you to do exactly that by giving you a window into the fundamental features of the language -- classes and fields and methods -- via an ordinary Java API. Understanding reflection will help you understand the tools that you use every day."