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/**

 * Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective

 * information about classes and objects.  Reflection allows

 * programmatic access to information about the fields, methods and

 * constructors of loaded classes, and the use of reflected fields,

 * methods, and constructors to operate on their underlying

 * counterparts, within security restrictions.

 *

 * <p>{@code AccessibleObject} allows suppression of access checks if

 * the necessary {@code ReflectPermission} is available.

 *

 * <p>{@code Array} provides static methods to dynamically create and

 * access arrays.

 *

 * <p>Classes in this package, along with {@code java.lang.Class}

 * accommodate applications such as debuggers, interpreters, object

 * inspectors, class browsers, and services such as Object

 * Serialization and JavaBeans that need access to either the public

 * members of a target object (based on its runtime class) or the

 * members declared by a given class.

 *

 * @since JDK1.1

 */

package java.lang.reflect;