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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java

Presented by Howard Lewis Ship on Feb 10, 2012 Length 01:00:02     Download: MP3
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Development
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Tapestry ,
Java Web Frameworks ,
QCon San Francisco 2011 ,
Java ,
Languages ,
QCon ,
Programming ,
Conferences ,
Meta Programming System
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Summary
Howard Lewis Ship discusses how to add extend class functionality at runtime via meta-programming for Java using Tapestry Plastic.

Bio
Howard Lewis Ship is the creator of the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. Howard is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon and other conferences, and the author of "Tapestry in Action". Twitter: @hlship.

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    Strange Loop

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    Subsequent improvements

    by Howard Lewis Ship

    Even though its only been a couple of months since this talk, I have put some improvements into plastic, with more coming. The big one is that instance fields are no longer required to be private; if a field is transformed in some way (say, providing a conduit, or an injection), it must be private, protected, or package private. If a field is not affected (say, a final field), it may now even be public. This is available in Tapestry 5.3.2 (the current stable release) and in 5.4.