security - How to restrict developers to use reflection to access private methods and constructors in Java?

Question

How to restrict developers to use reflection to access private methods and constructors in Java?

Using normal Java code we can't access private constructors or private methods outside of a class. But by using reflection we can access any private methods and constructors in a Java class.

So how can we give security to our Java code?

Answer 1

Run your application using a SecurityManager and a sufficiently restrictive security policy.

There's a short summary in the tutorial and extensive information in the security documentation.