It always annoys me when I post a "how do I do X?" question, and the
answer is "why would you want to do X?", but in this case I really am
confused. GWT is a development tool for generating static JavaScript
applications; what are you hoping to accomplish with the Java
reflection APIs?
On Jul 7, 1:17 pm, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> On 7 juil, 17:25, Pavel Lahoda wrote:
>
> > Congrats to the new M2 of 2.1 release of the GWT framework.
> > Is there any chance that we'll see some progress in the area of making
> > GWT Java API subset more complete to the original libraries ?
> > To be specific : is there any chance, that Reflection API gets
> > implemented ? There are some projects that do just that, so it is
> > proof it can be done, just none of them is complete (I haven't seen a
> > project that would allow reflection of annotations in the runtime)
> > plus it would be great if such a standard feature of the language
> > makes it into standard distribution. Please, make this happen. Thanks.
>
> Might I ask why you'd need it? (given that every single class is known
> at compile-time, why couldn't you use some generator to do the hard-
> work? of it'd probably mean organizing your code differently, but
> allowing any kind of reflection at runtime would mean that the GWT
> compiler don't prune any field or method from any class, which is
> precisely what it does best!)
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