Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Java Reflection API that can be exploited by a decade-old attack. No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Java is starting to look like a chubby guy in tight Dockers who can't sit down without splitting a seam (and yes, I analogize from experience). A week after Oracle released Java 7, Update 21, which ...

This article gives you the inner power of reflection. Actually speaking there is no concept of hacking. It is just a tweak you can make to a java object through reflection. In this article I will show ...

Security researcher Adam Gowdiak and his team at Security Explorations have discovered another slew of issues that stem from the way Java is implemented in certain versions of software, in this case, ...