7.2.1 - What Is Reflection?
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of the Reflection API in Java?
💡 Hint: Think about what 'reflection' allows you to do in programming.
Name one key class used in Java Reflection.
💡 Hint: What class represents a class or interface?
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What does the Reflection API allow you to do?
💡 Hint: Think about the flexibility that runtime gives compared to compile time.
Can reflection access private fields of classes?
💡 Hint: Remember, accessing private members is a feature of the Reflection API.
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Challenge Problems
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Write a Java program that uses reflection to list all methods in a class and execute one of them.
💡 Hint: Remember to handle exceptions for invocations.
Design an annotation and use reflection to process classes with that annotation, printing relevant data.
💡 Hint: Make sure you think about how to define and apply your annotation.
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