Java Reflection: Getting fields and methods in declaration order

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With jdk 6, the reflected fields are in deed in their declaration order. In early jdk that wasn’t the case. Apparently enough people have nagged.

Although not guaranteed by javadoc, I would still take this order as granted, and I assume the order will be kept in future jdks too.

In your app, like in most apps, the dependency on the declaration order is mostly vanity – your app won’t fail if the order screws up, it just become a little uglier.

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