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 ...

A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a ...

Self-modifying code changes its own instructions during execution. In practice, this approach certainly offers advantages, for example in terms of adaptability or code optimization. It is not ...