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diff --git a/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.adoc b/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.adoc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..acb8c0b75 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[reflection]] +== New Reflection Interfaces + +AspectJ 5 provides a full set of reflection APIs analogous to the +`java.lang.reflect` package, but fully aware of the AspectJ type system. +See the javadoc for the runtime and tools APIs for the full details. The +reflection APIs are only supported when running under Java 5 and for +code compiled by the AspectJ 5 compiler at target level 1.5. + +[[reflection_api]] +=== Using AjTypeSystem + +The starting point for using the reflection apis is +`org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjTypeSystem` which provides the method +`getAjType(Class)` which will return the `AjType` corresponding to a +given Java class. The `AjType` interface corresponds to +`java.lang.Class` and gives you access to all of the method, field, +constructor, and also pointcut, advice, declare statement and inter-type +declaration members in the type. |