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252 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2001
You can see two disadvantages of reflection in the example. First, the example is capable of generating three run-time errors, all of which would have been compile-time errors if reflective instantiation were not used. Second, it takes twenty lines of tedious code to generate an instance of the class from its name, whereas a constructor invocation would fit neatly on a single line.
"[This is what] Java developers who release Open Source […] code are saying: 'Here, I worked hard on this. I hope you like it. But use it exactly how I tell you to use it, because fuck you, it's my code. I'll decide who's the goddamn grown-up around here."