Reflection

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Navigate Reflection topic: Reflection Overview Dynamic Class Loading Dynamic Method Invocation Accessing Private Features with Reflection

Reflection is a new concept in Java, and did not exist in classical compiled languages like C, and C++. The idea is to discover an object's attributes and its methods programmatically.