On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 23:12 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Attached is a simplified test case (3 classes - c1 is in package p1, c2 > and c3 are in package p2, c2 is not public, p1.c1 is the entry point) > that should throw an IllegalAccessException on the line: > m.invoke(o, new Object[0]); Sun's RI throws this exception: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class p1.c1 can not access a member of class p2.c2 with modifiers "public" at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:65) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:588) at p1.c1.main(c1.java:10) Maybe we should also implement some access checks in classpath itself, as Sun does in sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess, before we call invokeNative? - twisti