There is a notable omission in the current reflection API: packages.
There should be a class java.lang.reflect.Package with methods to
access a named package, and to iterate over the contents of a package.

This would be particularly useful inside JCK, where we are trying to verify the
contents of the standard Java packages, making sure that misguided licencees
do not try and add extra classes into the Java hierarchy.

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Another request from ###@###.###:

Is there any way to get a list of classes in a package?
If not, what is the point of the Package class?

A natural new package method would be:

Class[] Package.getClasses()

which would return a list of all the classes registered
in the Package.  

brian.klock@eng 1998-05-08
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