java.lang.reflect (JDK 1.6)

Package: java.lang.reflect

Author(s)

Since

JDK1.1

Version

Serial

Description

Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective information about classes and objects.

See also:

AccessibleObject View Source	The AccessibleObject class is the base class for Field, Method and Constructor objects.
AnnotatedElement View Source	Represents an annotated element of the program currently running in this VM.
Array View Source	The `Array` class provides static methods to dynamically create and access Java arrays.
Constructor View Source	`Constructor` provides information about, and access to, a single constructor for a class.
Field View Source	A `Field` provides information about, and dynamic access to, a single field of a class or an interface.
GenericArrayType View Source	`GenericArrayType` represents an array type whose component type is either a parameterized type or a type variable.
GenericDeclaration View Source	A common interface for all entities that declare type variables.
GenericSignatureFormatError View Source	Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the generic signature information for a type, method or constructor.
InvocationHandler View Source	`InvocationHandler` is the interface implemented by the invocation handler of a proxy instance.
InvocationTargetException View Source	InvocationTargetException is a checked exception that wraps an exception thrown by an invoked method or constructor.
MalformedParameterizedTypeException View Source	Thrown when a semantically malformed parameterized type is encountered by a reflective method that needs to instantiate it.
Member View Source	Member is an interface that reflects identifying information about a single member (a field or a method) or a constructor.
Method View Source	A `Method` provides information about, and access to, a single method on a class or interface.
Modifier View Source	The Modifier class provides `static` methods and constants to decode class and member access modifiers.
ParameterizedType View Source	ParameterizedType represents a parameterized type such as Collection<String>.
Proxy View Source	`Proxy` provides static methods for creating dynamic proxy classes and instances, and it is also the superclass of all dynamic proxy classes created by those methods.
ReflectPermission View Source	The Permission class for reflective operations.
Type View Source	Type is the common superinterface for all types in the Java programming language.
TypeVariable View Source	TypeVariable is the common superinterface for type variables of kinds.
UndeclaredThrowableException View Source	Thrown by a method invocation on a proxy instance if its invocation handler's `invoke` method throws a checked exception (a `Throwable` that is not assignable to `RuntimeException` or `Error`) that is not assignable to any of the exception types declared in the `throws` clause of the method that was invoked on the proxy instance and dispatched to the invocation handler.
WildcardType View Source	WildcardType represents a wildcard type expression, such as `?`, `? extends Number`, or `? super Integer`.