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Reflective access across modules issues

Reports Class.forName() and ClassLoader.loadClass() calls which try to access classes that aren't visible in the current scope due to Java 9 module accessibility rules.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

Java9ReflectionClassVisibility
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Reflective access

This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Modules', which is available since Java 9.

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection Java9ReflectionClassVisibility

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025