When performing reflective access to default methods in Java, Google seems to fail us. The solutions presented on Stack Overflow, for instance, seem to work only in a certain set of cases, and not on all Java versions. This article will illustrate different approaches to calling interface default methods through reflection, as may be required … Continue reading Correct Reflective Access to Interface Default Methods in Java 8, 9, 10
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Defensive API evolution with Java interfaces
API evolution is something absolutely non-trivial. Something that only few have to deal with. Most of us work on internal, proprietary APIs every day. Modern IDEs ship with awesome tooling to factor out, rename, pull up, push down, indirect, delegate, infer, generalise our code artefacts. These tools make refactoring our internal APIs a piece of … Continue reading Defensive API evolution with Java interfaces