Another facility in the making...

Gang,

I am having some trouble getting certain features in the Http Facility to 
work, and needed a runtime view of the internals of things.

So, I took some old code I have laying in around since 1998, twisted it a bit 
and made it into the Reflector Facility.

The Reflector is a kind of poor man's JMX. It allows you to traverse any 
public fields, as well as getXXX() fields inside your application. You can 
also change values or instantiate/assign new objects, but that is ONLY so if 
the field is public or the class has a proper setXXX() method.

I will continue by refactoring it, since the code is pretty messy, but 
all-in-all it is a pretty nifty tool for server side troubleshooting. Except 
for breaking apart some concerns, and the special handling for Map, 
Collection, Dictionary and arrays, I will also attempt to XMLize the data, so 
we can plugin some neat looks later, or use the raw interface for other 
purposes later.

You should be able to view a small demo on Alex server at 
http://karasulu.homeip.net:8080/inspect/
(note, the trailing slash is significant atm)

In this demo, only the "composition model" is registered as a root object, but 
any object in an application could be registered as a root.


Cheers
Niclas
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