Build Integration
REFLECTK was designed to be part of your application's build
process. It contains tools to specify rules for your projects, to store
or share them using XML and to check them during build-time. In
Java-based projects the defacto standards for building applications are
the Apache Ant and Apache Maven build systems.
In our resource section there a some examples rulesets that cover
the following fields:
- layer access restriction
- code quality
- fault detection
- refactoring support
- naming conventions
- and many more
If you are interested in this aspect go to the CQL AntTask.
IDE Integration
There exist a bunch of Eclipse Plugins and Netbeans Modules that
comfortably integrates REFLECTK's functionality in your favorite IDE.
The starting point for REFLECTK's Eclipse Plugins is here.
If Netbeans is your favorite IDE you better start here.
Other IDEs are currently not supported. But don't be disappointed
- send use a feature request and we'll see!
Application Integration
Sometimes you'd like to analyze your application's code as part
of its business logic. You need a dynamic behaviour to implement a
plugin mechanism. Or you just want to find all sub classes of a certain
class during execution time. REFLECTK was designed to have a small
footprint with flexible extension points. Clean code with
well-documented interfaces makes it easy to customize it to your needs.
If you are interested in the full-fledged capabilities, please
take a look at the REFLECTK
Framework.
If you don't need all of REFLECTK's functionality you can use Inspect4J library which
is freeware. This library contains a very small subset of the REFLECTK
framework but includes all the logic to be able to search for subclasses
of a given type or all classes implementing a certain interface.