Reflection is the ability of an application to examine and modify its structure and behavior at runtime. The ability to introspect structure consists in the presence of the Core Reflection API for ...

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 ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

In Java application development, the technique of dynamically reading and analyzing the internal structure of a class (fields, methods, constructors, etc.) during program execution is called ...