metaprogramming

Some parts of an application can be written as a PIM in which most of the legwork is done by the metaprogramming system.

In a dynamically typed language, it is often necessary to use metaprogramming features to implement advanced designs.

But the Searchable plug-in also does a bit of metaprogramming on your individual domain classes.

Scaffolding -- like many metaprogramming techniques -- is nothing but a run-time code generator.

The best systems are those that allow you to work at multiple levels of abstraction within the metaprogramming system itself.

In " Metaprogramming with closures, ExpandoMetaClass, and categories, " you were introduced to the notion of a delegate.

Code-generating programs are sometimes called metaprograms; writing such programs is called metaprogramming.

Rather than deal with that pain, Streamlined allows effective customization through metaprogramming plus templates.

One of the most common metaprogramming scenarios is the creation of classes with attributes and methods that are dynamically generated.

Two Java frameworks that seem to get the mix of code generation and metaprogramming right are RIFE and JMatter (see Resources).

Because of this, the metaprogramming system should be customizable to produce output for a wide variety of systems.

This time, however, the failure isn't due to the lack of metaprogramming on a domain class. It's due to the lack of dependency injection.

The first difference between traditional metaprogramming and enterprise metaprogramming are the problems each tries to solve.

It is shown here for context; most of it is semi-advanced Ruby metaprogramming so I won't discuss it in detail.

It uses metaprogramming to generate the view model and allow you to bind to the objects you define in your controller.

As you saw in the third article in this series, Rails's metaprogramming strategy makes each line of code work harder.

But what if you want your metaprogramming to be more limited (especially important when writing unit tests)?

Generic programming invokes a metaprogramming facility within a language, in those languages supporting it.

Giles starts with the Greek letters pi, lambda and the word meta to lead over to metaprogramming (5: 25).

Jakarta Commons Lang: These helper utilities for the java. lang API include classes you can use for metaprogramming with Groovy.

The metaprogramming systems described in the previous articles in this series are essentially platform-specific models.

Notice that you can undo the metaprogramming by simply setting the String. metaClass to null.

Metaprogramming often provides much cleaner solutions to problems.

Using a combination of Ruby reflection and metaprogramming, the columns of the table become properties of the object.

In fact, most of the time that I use metaprogramming on a daily basis is when I'm writing tests.

Often, most of the code can use the metaprogramming tools available to accomplish the task.

Metaprogramming is simply writing programs that write or change programs.

If your metaprogramming requires eval, it's subject to the same requirements.

Metaprogramming has many uses in large-scale computer programming.

Enterprise metaprogramming involves these as well, but also adds other considerations.

Part 2 will delve more deeply into Streamlined's metaprogramming model and customization features.

We then looked at several metaprogramming systems and examples of their use.

You can create views, which you may or may not need to modify, with true metaprogramming or code generation.

Parts 1 and 2 in this series focused on textual metaprogramming systems; however, many metaprogramming systems are graphical in nature.

When you need to do metaprogramming, open up your toolbox and throw in some languages that allow delayed binding.

First let's look at metaprogramming that involves textual macro languages.

Based on Hibernate with Swing, JMatter allows rapid development of quite sophisticated applications based on a metaprogramming model.

This is a metaprogramming method defined on the Class class that executes at interpretation time.

InfoQ: If you have your own interpreter, how does this interact with metaprogramming and other dynamic behavior of Ruby?

The big thing that changed for me when I started coding in Ruby is my ability to produce and consume metaprogramming constructs.

Metaprogramming techniques were applied to several application areas

Graphical and textual metaprogramming

We then looked at several metaprogramming systems and examples of their use, including

Method is a metaprogramming method that adds an association, called

Many different uses for metaprogramming

Research on Hardware Design Patterns Based on Metaprogramming Techniques