Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Java Reflection API that can be exploited by a decade-old attack. No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the ...

Invoke Java static methods, class methods and constructors using Java reflection at runtime using one schema. RI lifts heavy redundant Java Reflection generic code, data type translation, primitive ...

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Abstract: The behavior of software that uses the Java Reflection API is fundamentally hard to predict by analyzing code. Only recent static analysis approaches can resolve reflection under unsound yet ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...

The Reflection API is used to be a powerful Java feature which is able to grant a full access to internals of any Java object at the run time, including access to the private fields and methods.

In a groundbreaking development for the world of Java programming, Oracle architect Paul Sandoz introduced a visionary project known as Babylon. The proposal outlines a bold plan to extend Java's ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...