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International Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Reflection

Reflection 1999: Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection pp 22–39Cite as

Jumping to the Meta Level

Behavioral Reflection can be fast and flexible

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Fully reflective systems have the notion of a control transfer from base-level code to meta-level code in order to change the behavior of the base-level system. There exist various opinions on how the programming model of a meta architecture has to look like. A common necessity of all models and systems is the need to intercept messages and operations, such as the creation of objects. We analyze the trade-offs of various message interception mechanisms for Java. We show their impact on the meta-level programming model and performance. We demonstrate that it is beneficial to integrate the interception mechanism with the virtual machine and the just-in-time compiler.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science 4 (Operating Systems), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstr. 1, D-91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Michael Golm & Jürgen Kleinöder

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  1. Computer Science Department, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler, BP 20722, F-44307, Nantes Cedex 03, France

    Pierre Cointe

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Golm, M., Kleinöder, J. (1999). Jumping to the Meta Level. In: Cointe, P. (eds) Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection. Reflection 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48443-4_3

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