Java Reflection Tutorial: Introduction

This tutorial will get into Java reflection in more depth than most of the tutorials I have seen. It will explain the basics of Java Reflection including how to work with arrays, annotations, generics and dynamic proxies, and do dynamic class loading and reloading. It will also show you how to do more specific tasks, like reading all getter methods of a class, or accessing private fields and methods of a class. This tutorial will also clear up some of the confusion out there about what Generics information is available at runtime.