This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection, Reflection'99, held in St. Malo, France in July 1999. The papers are organized in sections on programming languages, meta object protocols, middleware/multi-media, work in progress, applications, and meta-programming.

Invited Talk 1.- Reflection in Real-Time Systems.- Programming Languages.- From Dalang to Kava - the Evolution of a Reflective Java Extension.- Jumping to the Meta Level.- The Oberon-2 Reflection Model and its Applications.- Meta Object Protocols (MOPs).- Designing Persistence Libraries in Reflective Models with Intercession Property for a Client-Server Environment.- Non-Functional Policies.- Invited Talk 2.- On the Reflective Structure of Information Networks.- Middleware/Multi Media.- Reflective Media Space Management Using RASCAL.- The Design of a Resource-Aware Reflective Middleware Architecture.- Work in Progress (Short Papers).- A Formal Analysis of Smithsonian Computational Reflection.- Reflection for Dynamic Adaptability: A Linguistic Approach using LEAD++.- Networking and reflection: a strong combination.- Towards Systematic Synthesis of Reflective Middleware.- An Automatic Aspect Weaver with a Reflective Programming Language.- Using Compile-Time Reflection for Objects’State Capture.- Invited Talk 3.- Past, Present, and Future of Aperios.- Applications (Experience Papers).- Reflecting Java into Scheme.- jContractor: A Reflective Java Library to Support Design By Contract.- OpenCorba: a Reflective Open Broker.- OMPC++ — A Portable High-Performance Implementation of DSM using OpenC++ Reflection.- Meta-Programming.- Metaprogramming Domain Specific Metaprograms.- Aspect-Oriented Logic Meta Programming.

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