The ReflectionFactory class which was introduced for the purposes of supporting custom serialization libraries is not sufficient to the task by itself, despite what was implied by [1].
While it allows invocation of the various non-public serialization-related methods that are exposed by classes, it does not allow for the actual reading and writing of serializable fields, particularly those belonging to classes in the JDK itself; doing so requires lots of --add-opens, as far as I can see, which largely defeats the purpose of almost all of the methods that _were_ added to ReflectionFactory for serialization support (because --add-opens allows direct reflection anyway). Is it possible to get some helper API added to ReflectionFactory to cover this? Or is there a second API that I have somehow completely missed? [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev//2017-May/012660.html -- - DML
