Java Reflection

4th year Software Development project. The project is a Java application that uses reflection to analyse an arbitrary Java Application Archive (JAR). Java Reflection is an API that can inspect classes, interfaces, fields and methods at run-time. In this project the Java Reflection API is used to calculate the positional stability of each of the component classes in its object graph (Afferent/Efferent Couplings).

Afferent Couplings (Ca): measures how many classes depend on a given class. Classes with high afferent coupling will affect other classes when changes are made.

Efferent Couplings (Ce): measures the number of classes on which a given class depends. Classes with high efferent coupling will receive the effects of changes or defects in other classes.

Languages, Technologies and Implementation Architecture used for this project:

• Java, Java Reflection, Java Swing, Eclipse.

Getting Started

Download and extract the zip folder here JavaReflection

Prerequisites

Eclipse Neon. You can download here Eclipse Neon
Java 8. You can download the latest version of Java here Java

Installing

Insall Java JDK/JRE
Video tutorial of How to Install Java JDK/JRE here Install Java

Install Eclipse Neon
Video tutorial of How to Install Eclipse Neon on Windows 10 here Install Eclipse Neon

Deployment

There are two methods of deployment Eclipse IDE or CMD line. The command line method is faster because you only need to install java.

• Eclipse
  Launch Eclipse and set the workspace as the root folder that was extracted from the GitHub project. Select the folder using the Eclipse popup window browse button. Create a new project File tab --> New --> Project --> Java Project and name it Reflection. This is the name of the folder containing the project, Eclipse will pull in the files into the created project. Run the project by selecting the Run tab --> Run.

• Command Line
  Launch the command Line and navigate to the src folder inside the project folder. Root folder --> Reflection --> src. Once inside the src folder run the command javac ie/gmit/sw/*.java to compile all the java classes. Then run the application with the command java ie.gmit.sw.Runner.

1. Select the Jar file using the browse button.
2. click the Calculate Stability button to run the process.

Built With

• Java 8 - JDK
• Eclipse Neon - Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers. Version: Neon.1a Release (4.6.1)

Authors

Sean Fitzpatrick

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License