At 9:37 AM -0700 4/7/03, Joshua Bloch wrote:
>>
>>Not all security managers allow reflective access that violations 
>>access controls.
>
>What do access controls have to do with it?  Suppose *all* access to 
>the field was via reflection, hence invisible to static analysis. 
>Am I being dense here?  I must be missing something.
If
   * a field is private or package protected
   * the package is sealed, and
   * there is no read of the field nor reflection in the package
You know that the field will not be read.
        Bill
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