Reflection in a Uniform Behavioral Object Model

. We present the uniform meta-architecture of the TIGUKAT object model and show how it provides reflection in objectbase management systems. Reflection is the ability for a system to manage information about itself and to access (or reason about) this information through the regular accessprimitives of the model. The TIGUKAT object model is purely behavioral in nature, supports full encapsulationof objects, defines a clear separation between primitive components such as types, classes, collections, behaviors, functions, etc., and incorporates a uniform semantics over objects. The architecture of its meta-system is uniformly represented within itself, which gives a clean semantics for reflection. 1 Introduction Reflection is the ability for a system to manage information about itself and to access (or reason about) this information through the regular "channels" of information retrieval. It is natural for an objectbase management systems (OBMS) to manage information about itself sinc..