The classfile API proposal notes that class file generation, parsing, and instrumentation are ubiquitous in the Java ecosystem, with many tools and libraries needing to process class files.

The Class-File API was also finalized in this release, and it provides a standard API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files, as well as tracking the class file format that is ...

This API provides a standard API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. It aims to provide an API for processing class files that tracks the class file format defined by the ...