reification

Casting to a Class which is determined at run-time

I have a method fetchObjects(String) that is expected to return an array of Contract business objects. The className parameter tells me what kind of business objects I should return (of course this doesn't make sense in this construed case because I already said I will return Contracts, but it's basically the situation I have in my real ...

Versioned RDF store

Let me try rephrasing this: I am looking for a robust RDF store or library with the following features: Named graphs, or some other form of reification. Version tracking (probably at the named graph level). Privacy between groups of users, either at named graph or triple level. Human-readable data input and output, e.g. TriG parser an...

Simple example of reification in RDF-XML

Could anybody be so kind to give me a simple example of reification in RDF-XML ? I want to see if I understood it correctly. For example, I propose the following case Tolkien -> wrote -> Lord of the rings /|\ | Wikipedia said that How would you write it with and without reification (i.e. as a simple RDF...

Why should I care that Java doesn't have reified generics?

This came up as a question I asked in an interview recently as something the candidate wished to see added to the Java language. It's commonly-identified as a pain that Java doesn't have reified generics but, when pushed, the candidate couldn't actually tell me the sort of things that he could have achieved were they there. Obviously be...

Any word on reified generics in Java?

I know this question will probably provoke more discussion than concrete answers (which I know isn't preferable). But with the recent acquisition by Oracle, I was wondering if there's been any word that Java might (someday) get reified generics? I've heard that Oracle wants to give Java a bit of a boost, and I can think of no better wa...

How does C# generics affect collections with primitives

As I understand it, C#/.Net generics support some degree of reification. So, if I have the following code: List<int> list = new List<int>(); list.Add(1); Will the value 1 be autoboxed or will the 'list' object handle primitive ints efficiently? ...