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 ...

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.

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.

According to Gowdiak, the vulnerability is located in the Reflection API (application programming interface), a feature that was introduced in Java 7 and which has been the source of many critical ...

Use reflection: Java’s Reflection API allows inspection of generic types—but with some limitations. Variance in generics. Generics are invariant: Generics in Java are invariant, ...

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 ...

Enter Java 8 and the Java Reflection API, which allows for the extraction of that parameter info. "It seemed like the time was right to add this very often requested feature," Citrin said. As the ...