Is any particular plans when it will be available for usage? On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, John Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may have noticed that a common early step, and a painful one, of > the dynamic language implementor is to use reflection for connecting > dynamic callers to dynamic callees. The next step, which is painful > in a different way, is to reinvent a somewhat better reflection, by > byte-compiling lots of wrapper classes which connect via various > language-specific interfaces. > > The JVM really should give more help for this sort of thing. > Inspired in part by some of the conversations in this group, I think > there is a way: > > http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/method_handles_in_a_nutshell > > Want to help refine the design? > > There need to be be both native and emulation implementations, so > implementors can use method handles on current and future JVMs. > > By the way, this is not the same as invokedynamic, which is concerned > with the logic of call site linkage and dynamic overloading. But > method handles are a necessary foundation piece for invokedynamic, > because they provide the vocabulary for linking a dynamic call site. > > Best wishes, > -- John > > > >
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