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