On 28/09/16 19:09, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 28/09/2016 13:22, Andrew Dinn wrote: >> I'd be happy to try to conduct such an experiment. Can you provide links >> to the relevant JIRAs. > The javadoc for MethodsHandes.Lookup is probably the best place to > start, assuming you haven't used it before. This has a good section to > explain how access checking differs to core reflection. > > JDK-8162494 [1] is one issue where John has a write-up with some straw > man designs. I suspect it will require working through a few specific > examples to get a feel for what is the right direction.
Thanks, I'll look into this as soon as I can. In particular I will see if I can use it in Byteman instead of reflection (the need to do some class rewriting means an agent is probably the best initial candidate for testing this). regards, Andrew Dinn -----------
