Have you ever wondered how your favorite IDE manages auto-completion of method and field names? Even better, how does an object relational (OR) mapping framework like Hibernate support default fields ...

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 ...

I write web based systems for a huge company. My current project involves reading from a (denormalized) table and putting column values in a java object. Those objects are then added to a collection.

The procedure is similar to using Reflection in Java. To call functions, you need to create a MethodHandle, which requires the Linker class. Additionally, you need to load the shared library.