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 ...

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”) ...

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 ...