- Protected: The same package and sub classes see it. Use getters and setters to manage this. Example: A gold shop. The gold price is private. A customer uses a getter to see the price. A customer ...

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

Reflections scans and indexes your project's classpath metadata, allowing reverse transitive query of the type system on runtime.