UnderstandingAndUsingReflection

Understanding and Using Reflection Summary: Reflection is a powerful language feature. Java supports ‘structural-reflection’, which is safe to use. With reflection, it is possible to do two basic types of operations on code: inspection and manipulation.... More

Understanding and Using Reflection Summary: Reflection is a powerful language feature. Java supports ‘structural-reflection’, which is safe to use. With reflection, it is possible to do two basic types of operations on code: inspection and manipulation. Reflection enables using ‘signature based polymorphism’ as an alternative to ‘interface based polymorphism’ in Java. Reflection also facilitates creation of flexible and adaptable frameworks and patterns, which is not usually possible with direct code. Though there are many clear advantages in using reflection, like any other language feature, reflection can be misused. This article covers a few specific problems and solutions to illustrate uses and misuses of reflection. In programming, reflection is the ability to dynamically create, use or manipulate classes and objects at runtime. For example, you can create an instance of a class, examine the class to find a specific method from that class and execute that method with the a Less