do bean fields have to be public to use reflection?

[dendenners]

Hey there,
I'm using the java reflection package to dynamically determine what fields of a dataObject (bean) to show on jsp page. However, it seems that I get an error if the member variables of the bean are private. Is it the case that member variables of a class have to be public for reflection to determine them, or is there a bean-specific way in which a correctly constructed class can get around this?
Thanks

 

[wushutwist]

As was stated earlier post, Reflection does not bypass the basic accessiblity security. You can still only see public members.

 

[dendenners]

I've solved this problem. Instead of accessing the member vars directly I just invoked the public get() methods for the variables.