Does reflection breaks the idea of private methods, because private methods can be access outside of the class?

Question

Does reflection break the idea of private methods? Because private methods can be accessed from outside of the class? (Maybe I don\'t understand the meaning of reflection or

Answer 1

Yes it breaks the encapsulation, if you want it to. However, it can be put to good use - like writing unit tests for private methods, or sometimes - as I have learned from my own experience - getting around bugs in third party APIs :)

Note that encapsulation != security. Encapsulation is an object oriented design concept and is only meant for improving the design. For security, there is SecurityManager in java.