Name: vi73552 Date: 04/08/99


There is no way of retrieving the non-public inherited members of a class via reflection methods on class java.lang.Class.

This doesn't make much sense, and means that tool writers are forced to walk the class hierarchy to manually compute inherited members.

I should add that, in general, the reflection API is in dire need of a very thorough review, taking into account the new JVM and JLS specs. There are many places whether the API is insufficiently specified.
(Review ID: 56707)
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