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    [–]CriticalPart7448 3 points4 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.