Core reflection has its own type conversion behavior that is somewhat poorly specified; it is scattered around a few places, and its boxing and unboxing deviates from that of Java language assignment contexts. In addition, core reflection has a somewhat erroneous access check system. We can improve the overview of java.lang.reflect to address these shortcomings and recommend users to use java.lang.invoke for better functionality in these areas.
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