Cost associated with reflections in java

Reflection is v.powerful and useful, but comes at some cost:

• You lose all the benefits of compile-time type checking, including exception checking. If a program attempts to invoke a nonexistent or inaccessible method reflectively, it will fail at run time unless you've taken special precautions.

• The code required to perform reflective access is clumsy and verbose. It is tedious to write and difficult to read.

• Performance suffers