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Reflection provides the ability to examine, modify and create data types and behaviour at runtime. Developers of C# (or Java) not familiar with this concept, have most likely encountered it at some point, or even used it, through the .NET or Java reflection library. Have you ever used the typeof operator or invoked the GetType() methods in C#? Then you have already encountered it first hand. Recently I found the need for reflection in ABAP, all the way from type inspection to creation of new data types at runtime, which I found to be documented only very superficial. This (and the following) post is a result of my experiences working with reflection in ABAP. In this first post I will briefly introduce an overview of reflection in ABAP and how this can be used to inspect types at runtime. If you just want to get down with reflection in ABAP I suggest you skip the next section. ...