What is Reflection and Why is it Useful?

Reflection is a programming concept that allows a program to inspect and manipulate its own structure at runtime. This includes the ability to examine classes, methods, fields, and constructors, and even to invoke methods dynamically. While reflection is most commonly associated with statically typed languages like Java and C#, many languages support some form of reflection. In this post, we’ll focus on reflection in Java, but the principles are generally similar across languages.

Understanding Reflection

Reflection is the ability of a program to:

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