Ooo, that's nasty. Should be used *very* sparingly, if at all.
Wonder why they did that? It's quite a nasty thing to do even allow.
Craig
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:53, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> I am not intimately familiar with Java SecurityManager. So today I
> discovered one thing that is totally new for me - you can actually
> read/write a value of a protected field of an object located in another
> package, using reflection:
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ReflectPermission.ht
> ml
>
> This opens new ways of implementing a DataObject. Of course using this would
> break encapsulation, but TopLink for instance uses it all over the place.
>
> Interesting...
>
> Andrus
>
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