Java Reflection API is a powerful tool that allows developers to inspect and manipulate classes, methods, fields, and other components of a Java program dynamically during runtime. It provides a way ...

Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection. To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles—what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the Java Reflection API. Bug hunters and hackers alike have found a number of zero-days related to the Reflection API ...

Problems with the maligned Java Reflection API, the molten core of far too many exploited Java vulnerabilities in 2013, have surfaced again.. Researchers with Security Explorations yesterday ...

The Reflection API Trail of the Java Tutorials warns of “performance overhead” in its list of “reflection drawbacks.” Chapter Nine (“Evaluating performance”) ...

Have you ever wondered how your favorite IDE manages auto-completion of method and field names? Even better, how does an object relational (OR) mapping framework like Hibernate support default ...

Java 7 Update 15 is the latest version released last week. "When combined, the flaws can be leveraged to achieve a complete bypass of the Java security sandbox," Softpedia wrote.

A simple example using Java Reflection to read and XML file, create a class of students using reflection (methods and field calls), add students to classes, and write out by recreating XML file ...