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25
26/**
27 * Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective information about
28 * classes and objects.  Reflection allows programmatic access to information
29 * about the fields, methods and constructors of loaded classes, and the use
30 * of reflected fields, methods, and constructors to operate on their underlying
31 * counterparts, within encapsulation and security restrictions.
32 *
33 * <p>{@code AccessibleObject} allows suppression of access checks if
34 * the necessary {@code ReflectPermission} is available.
35 *
36 * <p>{@code Array} provides static methods to dynamically create and
37 * access arrays.
38 *
39 * <p>Classes in this package, along with {@code java.lang.Class}
40 * accommodate applications such as debuggers, interpreters, object
41 * inspectors, class browsers, and services such as Object
42 * Serialization and JavaBeans that need access to either the public
43 * members of a target object (based on its runtime class) or the
44 * members declared by a given class.
45 *
46 * @since 1.1
47 * @revised 9
48 * @spec JPMS
49 */
50package java.lang.reflect;
51