| The Permission class for reflective operations. A
ReflectPermission is a named permission and has no
actions. The only name currently defined is suppressAccessChecks,
which allows suppressing the standard Java language access checks
-- for public, default (package) access, protected, and private
members -- performed by reflected objects at their point of use.
The following table
provides a summary description of what the permission allows,
and discusses the risks of granting code the permission.
| Permission Target Name |
What the Permission Allows |
Risks of Allowing this Permission |
| suppressAccessChecks |
ability to access
fields and invoke methods in a class. Note that this includes
not only public, but protected and private fields and methods as well. |
This is dangerous in that information (possibly confidential) and
methods normally unavailable would be accessible to malicious code. |
See Also: java.security.Permission
See Also: java.security.BasicPermission
See Also: AccessibleObject
See Also: Field.get
See Also: Field.set
See Also: Method.invoke
See Also: Constructor.newInstance
since:
1.2 |
