From: Henrik Horneber <ryco@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T19:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: performance comparison

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Gavin,
> 
> GS> ISTM that the state of the art in Java IDEs is much much much much
> GS> better than any C++ IDE.  Is that the case?
> 
> Yes. Absolutely.
> 
> GS> If so, it could be because of Java's standard reflection mechanism and
> GS> intermediate byte code.  Is that a fair comment?
> 
> No. Reflection has nothing to do with the things that Java IDE's do
> and were mentioned here. Reflection is only available at runtime, but
> IDE's need static code analysis by looking at the source code files.
> 

As a side note, Reflection or Introspection does have something to do 
with how the IDE handles code completion and stuff like that. If you 
have a 3rd party library only as class files (in bytecode), most recent 
IDEs still will give a decent amount of code completion when you use 
these classes. Reflection is the only way the IDE is able to get those 
method and class names.

Still, these kinds of errors we are talking about have nothing to do 
with reflection.

Regards

Henrik