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 the ...

Oracle’s Critical Patch update addresses 154 vulnerabilities, many of which are remotely exploitable. Security Explorations of Poland, meanwhile, published details on a number of Java flaws in the ...

Data marshaling (pulling data from an outside source and loading it into a Java object) can utilize the benefits of reflection to create a reusable solution. The problem is simple enough: load data ...

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 ...

The .NET 4.5 Framework includes some changes to the typical reflection use cases. Most importantly, the Type object has been split into two separate classes: Type and TypeInfo. Find out how and when ...