I never quite believed that, so here is my one good use for Reflection. I will use Reflection to analyze an original Java class given as input to find out which method signatures the class provides.

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Modeling of Java programs as code models, suitable for access, analysis, and transformation. Enhancements to Java reflection, enabling access to code models at compile time and run time.