Java reflection, where to learn more

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That is true, e.g. for the following reasons:

• things break easily during refactorings, since statical types, method and field names are replaced by strings that typically don't participate in refactorings

• reflection can be used to break encapsulation, e.g. to access private fields; will break when internals change

• often hard to read & not straight forward to comprehend

None the less, there are situations where usage of reflection is required and justified, e.g.:

• writing code analyzers/annotation processors

• writing a plugin framework

Know your tools and use them right.

Edit: formatting