Does POI use Reflection?

[Ramon F Herrera <ra...@patriot.net>]

It seems that the latest trend in GUI (and MS Office apps) is the use of 
reflection. This is only supported by new generation programming 
languages such as Java and C#, not by C++.

Does POI use reflection, directly or indirectly?

TIA,

-Ramon



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Re: Does POI use Reflection?

[Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> It seems that the latest trend in GUI (and MS Office apps) is the use of 
> reflection. This is only supported by new generation programming 
> languages such as Java and C#, not by C++.

POI is written entirely in Java, so if we want to use reflection we have 
no issues with doing so - there's no C/C++ in our codebase

> Does POI use reflection, directly or indirectly?

There are a few places where we store a map or list of records IDs, ooxml 
document parts etc, along with the appropriate class to handle them. The 
appropriate class is then instantiated as required for the incoming record 
or document stream

Nick

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