Name: sg39081			Date: 08/14/97


Running the following program, which should succeed, results in an
IllegalAccessException.

import java.lang.reflect.*;

public class TestPrivateAccess extends Object
{
  TPAInnerClass inner = new TPAInnerClass();

  private void privateMethod()
  {System.out.println("private method.");}

  class TPAInnerClass extends Object
  {
    void dynamicInvoke()
    {
      try
	{
	  Method method = 
TestPrivateAccess.class.getDeclaredMethod("privateMethod", new Class[] {});
	  method.invoke(TestPrivateAccess.this, new Object[] {});
	}
      catch (Exception e)
	{e.printStackTrace();}
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] argv)
  {
    TestPrivateAccess tpa = new TestPrivateAccess();
    tpa.inner.dynamicInvoke();
  }
}

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