Transparency and reflection in distributed systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Approach to object security in distributed SOM
IBM Systems Journal
Adding type parameterization to the Java language
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
JRes: a resource accounting interface for Java
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Dynamic class loading in the Java virtual machine
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
Using Metaobject Protocols to Implement Atomic Data Types
ECOOP '95 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Reflection for Statically Typed Languages
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Load-Time Structural Reflection in Java
ECOOP '00 Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
From Dalang to Kava - The Evolution of a Reflective Java Extension
Reflection '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection
Supporting Real World Security Models in Java
FTDCS '99 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
A Metaobject Protocol for Fault-Tolerant CORBA Applications
SRDS '98 Proceedings of the The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Automatic program transformation with JOIE
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
JAsCo: an aspect-oriented approach tailored for component based software development
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Altering Java Semantics via Bytecode Manipulation
GPCE '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems
MA '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Agents
Kava - using byte code rewriting to add behavioural reflection to Java
COOTS'01 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems - Volume 6
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Current implementations of reflective Java typically either require access to source code, or require a modified Java platform. This makes them unsuitable for applying reflection to Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) systems. The high level nature of Java bytecode makes on-the-fly rewritings of class files feasible and this has been exploited by a number of authors. However, in practice working at bytecode level is error prone and leads to fragile code. We propose using metaobject protocols in order to specify behavioural changes and use standard bytecode rewritings to implement the changes. We have developed a reflective Java called Kava that provides behavioural runtime reflection through the use of bytecode rewriting of Java classes. In this paper we discuss the binary rewriting approach, provide an overview of the Kava system and provide an example of an application of Kava.