This thesis concerns language theory and metaprogramming, more specifically, a kind of metaprogramming performed during program execution.
This thesis proposes a technique that help simplify and partially automate many tasks involved on these two aspects of software design and development.
A powerful and smart metaprogramming mechanism, which works at runtime on virtual machine level, and which is applicable to any language supported by the virtual machine itself is provided. The mechanism is based on simple source code annotations.
Applications of this technique varies from code specialization to code reuse and deployment.
Different examples of application are provided
