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    26 /**

    27  * Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective

    28  * information about classes and objects.  Reflection allows

    29  * programmatic access to information about the fields, methods and

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

    31  * methods, and constructors to operate on their underlying

    32  * counterparts, within security restrictions.

    33  *

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

    35  * the necessary {@code ReflectPermission} is available.

    36  *

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

    38  * access arrays.

    39  *

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

    41  * accommodate applications such as debuggers, interpreters, object

    42  * inspectors, class browsers, and services such as Object

    43  * Serialization and JavaBeans that need access to either the public

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

    45  * members declared by a given class.

    46  *

    47  * @since 1.1

    48  */

    49 package java.lang.reflect;