Reflection API

Reflection makes it possible to inspect the classes, interfaces, fields and methods at run time without knowing the names of the classes and also possible to instantiate the object, calling methods and get/set the field variables.

EX:

1.  Method[] meds = Employee.class.getDeclaredMethods();

2.  Method[] med = Employee.class.getMethods();

In the above statements first statement return all the public, private, protected and default methods of the Employee Class

Second statement returns the All public methods of super and Employee class.

DummyClass dummy = new DummyClass();

System.out.println("Class Name:" + ReflectionUtils.getClassName(dummy));

System.out.println("Modifier:" + ReflectionUtils.getModifier(dummy));