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Application
Clearly, the degree of pluggability is determined by the ease with which
a tool can be retargeted to either information source. Conversely,
pluggability must cope with changes in the information sources
themselves--to a different reflection model, for example, or to a
different repository. Figure shows how two tools,
each a client of meta-information, can exploit pluggability:
Figure:
Pluggable reflection
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- Object-to-component generator [22], initially
dependent on reflection, is retargeted to use a repository.
- javadoc [12],2normally a repository client, is retargeted to use reflection.
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David H. Lorenz
2003-02-17