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Book Review
If you are a java developer and want to get powered with Reflective Programming techniques in java, Java Reflection in Action is the book for you.
This book is written in a unique style considering real problems and how reflection can be used in such cases for better and flexible implementation.
This book starts with the basics of reflection and later shows you the magic that you can perform using the Reflection API in java. It explains in detail areas like, Proxies, Introspection, Class Loaders, Class-to-class transformation framework. These concepts are explained with proper examples. It shows use of different Design Patterns in reflection, this is demonstrated by a code generation example.
Developers are usually concerned about performance while using reflection; this book includes a chapter that shows how to evaluate the performance of reflection using benchmarking techniques.
This book also talks about the pitfalls of reflection and how to tackle those. At the end it talks about the future release (1.5, which is already out) and its impact on using reflection.
Overall it is a very informative and helpful book, which will add to your skill set.
by JavaReference.com
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