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After kick-starting the Advanced Java course by discussing how to How to create and destroy objects, how to use methods common to all objects, how to design Classes and Interfaces, how and when to use generics, how to use enums and annotations, how to write methods efficiently, various programming guidelines, how and when to use Exceptions, some concurrency best practices and the Built-in Serialization techniques, we are now going a step further.

In this lesson we are going to look at a very interesting subject called reflection. Reflection is the ability of the program to examine or introspect itself at runtime. Reflection is an extremely useful and powerful feature which significantly expands the capabilities of the program to perform its own inspections, modifications or transformations during its execution, without a single line of code change.

We will discuss the Reflection API, how to access generic type parameters, method handles and method argument names, and some of the pitfalls of reflection!

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