OpenJPA implements field-level access to beans

[Adam Hardy]

I'm coding a superclass for my entity beans. Because I wish to implement 
my own toString, equals and hashCode methods, I would like to access the 
fields on the entity subclasses.

I see in the OpenJPA code that you're using setAccessible (e.g. see 
below from org.apache.openjpa.enhance.Reflection) and I was wondering:

have you come across any situations where security is a problem? /I 
gather that this will fail under a security manager// unless the 
appropriate permissions are set up correctly. It is also// slower than 
testing explicitly. Just wondering whether there was any further progress?


/    private static void makeAccessible(AccessibleObject ao, int mods) {
       try {
           if (!Modifier.isPublic(mods) && !ao.isAccessible())
               AccessController.doPrivileged(J2DoPrivHelper
                   .setAccessibleAction(ao, true));
       } catch (SecurityException se) {
           throw new UserException(_loc.get("reflect-security", ao)).
               setFatal(true);
       }
   }


regards
Adam