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Reflection Enhancements

JDK 1.2 Contents
Reflection was introduced in Java 1.1. This release offers enhancements to reflection.

Reflection enables Java code to discover information about the fields, methods and constructors of loaded classes, and to use reflected fields, methods, and constructors to operate on their underlying counterparts on objects, within security restrictions. The API accommodates applications that need access to either the public members of a target object (based on its runtime class) or the members declared by a given class.

Reflection Enhancements
Reflection Specification

Located on the JavaSoft website:

Reflection API Specification
(javadoc)

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