No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the Java Reflection API. Bug hunters and hackers alike have found a number of zero-days related to the Reflection API ...

Oracle’s Critical Patch update addresses 154 vulnerabilities. Details were published on a number of Java flaws in the Java Reflection API.

According to Gowdiak, the vulnerability is located in the Reflection API (application programming interface), a feature that was introduced in Java 7 and which has been the source of many critical ...

Enter Java 8 and the Java Reflection API, which allows for the extraction of that parameter info. "It seemed like the time was right to add this very often requested feature," Citrin said.