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diff --git a/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.xml b/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.xml index 9afde22c4..3ae05e698 100644 --- a/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.xml +++ b/docs/adk15ProgGuideDB/reflection.xml @@ -3,14 +3,25 @@ <title>New Reflection Interfaces</title> <para> - AspectJ 5 provides support for runtime reflection of aspect types. The class <literal>Aspect</literal> is - analogous to the Java class <literal>Class</literal> and provides access to the members of an aspect. + AspectJ 5 provides a full set of reflection APIs analogous to the + <literal>java.lang.reflect</literal> 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. </para> <sect1 id="reflection_api"> - <title>The Aspect Class</title> + <title>Using AjTypeSystem</title> <para> - + The starting point for using the reflection apis is + <literal>org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjTypeSystem</literal> which + provides the method <literal>getAjType(Class)</literal> which will + return the <literal>AjType</literal> corresponding to a given + Java class. The <literal>AjType</literal> interface corresponds to + <literal>java.lang.Class</literal> 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. </para> </sect1> |