How to read the value of a private field from a different class in Java?

Question

I have a poorly designed class in a 3rd-party JAR and I need to access one of its private fields. For example, why should I need to choose priv

Answer 1

Use the Soot Java Optimization framework to directly modify the bytecode. http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/

Soot is completely written in Java and works with new Java versions.