PEARL is a high level procedural programming language, which was especially designed for the demanding need to have an expressive and comfortable language for solving multitasking problems when controlling technincal processes. PEARL is an abbreviation for "(P)rocess and (E)xperiment (A)utomation (R)ealtime (L)anguage".
It was designed around 1975 at the IRT Institute of the Leibniz University in Hannover with the idea in mind to have an easy to learn programming language for realtime...
This library allows for the programmer to bind arbitrary properties to types which can be accessed at runtime via reflection. Properties can be declared via annotation and later manipulated through a simple static interface; no special naming conventions are required and the properties can be bound to any method which has the appropriate signature.