Computer sciencey links - Object oriented stuff
Submitted by dmt on Sat, 2008-07-12 14:50
- The difference between introspection and reflection, and between structural reflection and behavioural reflection.
- A PowerPoint presentation on adding structural reflection to Rotor, Microsoft's .NET framework. The slideshow includes short definitions of many different terms and is an easier read than any CS text would be. Slide 11 has clear examples of structural reflection in Python.
- A PDF about adding structural reflection to Java with the Javassist library.
- A description of the standard java.lang.reflect package.
- Some material discussing how Java beans use introspection, plus background information on terminologies used.
- PDFs on two object-oriented extensions to TCL: TOOP and XOTcl.
- A mailing list message giving a brief rundown of GTK's object-oriented features as of 1999.
- A mailing list message on integrating KDE's Metaobject compiler with Gnome'sGObject system.
- KDE's QObject system.
- Gnome GObject system.
- LibGee and Vala, tools for working with GObjects.
