Acknowledgment

We thank Gilad Bracha and the anonymous referees for their valuable comments. Many thanks to Gennady Agranov, Gilad Bracha, Sergei Kojarski, and Jeffrey Palm for helpful discussions on reflection. The reflectdoc tool, the JavaBeans-based retargetable javadoc, and the reflection-based component generator were initially implemented by Predrag Petkovic, and later re-implemented by students in COM3240. Ramanathan Sundaram retargeted the component generator from using reflection to work with meta-information as a web service.