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In this chapter we describe a modern environment that supports a typed object-oriented technology. The components of this environment include reflection, the actual object-oriented virtual machine, and support for persistent objects. Reflection is the topic of Sect. 3.1. We first describe in Sect. 3.1.2 the core of type—safe object-oriented reflection: the Java class Class (C# has the corresponding type Type). Classes Field, Method, and Constructor are described in respective Sects. 3.1.3, 3.1.4, and 3.1.5. In Sect. 3.1.6 we show how access and updating of field values is carried out using reflection. In Sect. 3.1.7 we show how methods are invoked using reflection. Creating class objects using an extensible class loader is the topic of Sect. 3.1.8. Finally, in Sect. 3.1.9 we give a general specification of the structure of the Java class files.
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Alagić, S. (2015). Virtual Platform. In: Object-Oriented Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20442-0_3
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