Java Reflection

[Arathi Raj]

What is java reflection. Can anybody explain. Please suggest some tutorials on that.

[Mani Ram]

Java tutorial on Reflection API

[Choopong Songcharoenkij]

Java Reflection reflects Java programming types, your classes and interfaces, which u can use to examine those types in detail. The package java.lang.reflect contains the reflection package. You can use them to write a complete type browser, or write an application that interprets code that a user writes, turning that code into actual uses of classes, creation of objects, invocation of methods, and so on.

for the Sun tutorail see:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/

[Norm Radder]

Reflection allows a programmer to use classes and methods at runtime without having to name them at compile time. Most programming refers to classes only at compile time. The programmer and compiler have to have all the definitions available when the program is compiled.
With Reflection, the program can create objects and use methods etc that were not known when it was compiled. The class and method names are Strings that are passed to Reflection methods for them to find the Class definitions which can then be examined and used. Think about how the BeanBox demo program must work.

[Arathi Raj]

What are the uses of Java Reflection?

[Layne Lund]

Originally posted by Arathi Raj:
What are the uses of Java Reflection?

Did you even follow the link above or read what anyone else typed? There are several examples given above for the uses of Java Reflection.

Layne