Click on the title to see a list of pages about "reflection" - the ability of a program to examine and modify the program itself at runtime.  

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Includes...
	* Java language reflection
	* COM type libraries
	* discussion

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Examples:

You have a special logging routine that writes errors to a database when exceptions aren't caught elsewhere. A language with reflection might let you determine the concrete data types of all the parameters to the logging function at runtime. -- SteveHowell

See also: MetaProgramming

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