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Java Reflection in Action (In Action series)
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by Ira R. Forman and Nate Forman
Sales Rank: 467090
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List Price: $44.95
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications October 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932394184
ISBN-13: 978-1932394184
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"Exceptional coverage of an area . . . that is generally poorly covered and often misunderstood." -- JavaRanch.com
"Well-written . . . presents a difficult topic in a clear and comprehensible fashion." -- Computing Review
Product Description
Explaining the Java Reflection API and providing techniques for using it effectively, this guide describes the capabilities that allow a program to examine and modify itself at runtime. The java.lang.reflect package and its uses are covered, including a detailed discussion of Java's dynamic proxy facility. Less obvious reflective capabilities, such as call stack introspection and the Java class loader, are addressed. In recognition of the limitations of Java Reflection, the various ways to use Reflection to generate code and surpass these limitations are detailed. A discussion of performance analysis techniques and a look ahead at what is new in JDK 1.5 is included.
Customer Reviews & Comments
There are only a handful of books that every Java programmer should own. This book manages to enter into that elite group of books by providing exceptional coverage of an area of Java programming that is generally poorly covered and often misunderstood. Reflection is a topic that many programmers know about but don't truly understand. Reflection can provide simple ways to get out of complex problems, which makes it well worth knowing. Reflection is one of those tools that you never knew you needed until you learn it. The authors of this book are a father/son team that have been working with reflection for years. They attack reflection in small pieces, making each topic crystal clear before moving on to the next. In keeping with the "action" from the title, the authors show examples of each aspect of reflection, breaking down each line of code with complete explanations. The book starts with the basics of reflection, looking at how to examine a class at runtime and dynamically load it. The book then moves on to demonstrating how to use the Proxy class. Later chapters show how to examine the call stack, customize class loaders, and transform one class into another. Performance is covered with a chapter that gives some good examples of benchmarking the cost of using reflection. The book ends with a look at the impact of Java 1.5 on reflection. The best advice I can give is, buy this book. You will be amazed at the things that you didn't know you could do with Java.
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Java Reflection in Action (In Action series)
List Price: $44.95
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Price: $29.67
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