2006-07-13 07:05:43 · 3 answers · asked by benam 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Although I have never heard of anything called "meta-java", you could make an argument that such a thing exists. In the common programmer usage "meta-" prefix implies some sort of self-recursion of the term that follows. For example, in the RDBMS world metadata is "data about data", table names, columns names, types, field-lengths, etc. In object technology, a metaclass is a class encapsulating classes (java.lang.Class in one sense in Java, "static" members in another sense).
So what would "meta-java" be? I would say that the Java Reflection API is a sort of "meta-java". At least, it makes sense to me that way: Java code that manipulates Java code.
The XDoclet API is another sort of "meta-java", as are annotations in Java 5.0.
2006-07-14 13:50:23 · answer #1 · answered by BalRog 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... from what I've seen there's nothing. I've done a bit of Java programming, and I've never seen it.
You're probably accidentally combining 2 separate terms - Java and Metadata.
Java is a programming language often use for designing programs that are used in web pages.
Metadata is data about the web page itself, such as the html version, the scripting language, etc.
Hope that helps.
2006-07-13 21:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by changeling 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Java developer and I have never heard of that. Did you do a Yahoo search for it? If it doesn't show up, it probably doesn't exist.
2006-07-13 15:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by tcfrink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋