One of the things I love about C# is reflection. Because of assemblies and metadata, and an excellent supporting framework, it is very easy to take advantage of this paradigm. This week I threw myself into building an XMPP component framework from scratch. The first objective is to get the plumbing and architecture in place. […]
Introduction Like C# and Java, Delphi makes rich runtime type information available to developers, facilitating the use of reflection. Reflection is just another paradigm, but incredibly useful for performing certain tasks. For example, one of the tasks I use reflection for is to discover classes decorated with a SystemInitializer attribute on application startup. Instead of […]
Beyond Velocity 