What is the security risk of object reflection?
So after a few hours of workaround the limitation of Reflection being currently disabled on the Google App Engine, I was wondering if someone could help me understand why object reflection can be a threat. Is it because I can inspect the private variables of a class or are there any other deeper reasons? ewernli 1 - Reflection (as a concept) is indeed orthogonal to safety/security. There was a big emphasis in the design of java to make it a safe platform, with static typing , security manager , disciplined usage of class loader , and no way to screw pointers/ memory . You can read the