Class reflection et al
October 29th, 2002 by HenThere’s lots of incredibly scary discussions going on at the commons-dev about a new component known currently as Clazz. Yes, terrible name I know.
Commons Lang is gaining a set of reflection helper Utils, but on top of these will be a far more powerful introspection layer in Clazz. Stephen Colebourne [one of the guys behind Lang, the latest Collections stuff and joda.sourceforge.net] is leading the effort with Dmitri Plotnikov, Steve Downey, Juozas Baliuka and Berin Loritsch throwing in a lot of ideas. It blows my mind currently, I hope mainly just because I couldn’t keep up with my email when they started.
What I’ve liked about it so far is that there’s so many people who are interested in it, that many others have joined in, including people who are not committers at Apache/Jakarta yet, and that despite all the debate, they seem to be moving forward at a steady pace.
I hope to add Clazz [maybe even with a better name] to my list of APIs I carry around with me to use anywhere.