Reflection and Software Engineering [electronic resource] / edited by Walter Cazzola, Robert J. Stroud, Francesco Tisato.

Reflection and Software Engineering Foundations -- Shifting Up Reflection from the Implementation to the Analysis Level -- Towards a True Reflective Modeling Scheme -- Reflective Software Adaptability and Evolution -- Declarable Modifiers: A Proposal to Increase the Efficacy of Metaclasses -- Managing Evolution Using Cooperative Designs and a Reflective Architecture -- Reflective Middleware -- The Role of Reflective Middleware in Supporting the Engineering of Dynamic Applications -- Active Network Service Management Based on Meta-level Architectures -- Engineering Java-Based Reflective Languages -- OpenJava: A Class-Based Macro System for Java -- OpenJIT Frontend System: An Implementation of the Reflective JIT Compiler Frontend -- Kava - A Reflective Java Based on Bytecode Rewriting -- Dynamic Reconguration through Reflection -- Using Reflection to Support Dynamic Adaptation of System Software: A Case Study Driven Evaluation -- On the Integration of Configuration and Meta-level Programming Approaches -- Carp@ — A Reflection Based Tool for Observing Jini Services.