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3    Runtime Reflection. 
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5    <p>This package enables a metaobject to trap method calls and field 
6    accesses  on a regular Java object.  It provides a class 
7    <code>Reflection</code>, which is a main module for implementing 
8    runtime reflection. 
9    It also provides 
10   a class <code>Loader</code> and <code>Compiler</code> 
11   as utilities for dynamically or statically 
12   translating a regular class into a reflective class. 
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14   <p>An instance of the reflective class is associated with 
15   a runtime metaobject and a runtime class metaobject, which control 
16   the behavior of that instance. 
17   The runtime 
18   metaobject is created for every (base-level) instance but the 
19   runtime class metaobject is created for every (base-level) class. 
20   <code>Metaobject</code> is the root class of the runtime 
21   metaobject and <code>ClassMetaobject</code> is the root class 
22   of the runtime class metaobject. 
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24   <p>This package is provided as a sample implementation of the 
25   reflection mechanism with Javassist.  All the programs in this package 
26   uses only the regular Javassist API; they never call any hidden 
27   methods. 
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29   <p>The most significant class in this package is <code>Reflection</code>. 
30   See the description of this class first. 
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