The Glassfish Primitive Function Library (PFL) contains an interesting use case
for setAccessible: an enhanced object-to-string capability. Now, in an ideal
world, this shouldn’t be needed, as each object provides an adequate toString()
method; however, it is not uncommon while trying to diagnose a problem, to need
to see the actual state of objects, as represented by their fields, as the
toString() function often doesn’t show everything. This is especially important
to diagnose problems in production, where one could ask a customer to enable a
debug flag. Until now, this was restricted only by the security manager. What
can we do to keep such a capability in JDK9?
