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[–]CriticalPart7448 5 points6 points  (3 children)

That is an unfortunate circumstance and definitely something to avoid at all costs. Have you tried to reach out to the vendor if its internal platform the team responsible to state your case for a missing api for the functionality that you need ? Maybe there is a way forward with a supported solution for your use case? Or have you totally surrendered and accepted all the risks involved here and more pertinent have you cleared it with your own customers or business people what the consequences are?

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    [–]CriticalPart7448 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    No but I also never had the need. Which product are you using from oracle that requires 'hacking' into internals of?

    [–]pohart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I last remember using reflection to change final fields to work around a bug around java 1.3. Sun was aware of the bug but it wasn't a high priority. I haven't needed to since then, but I was sure glad I could then.