In the original comment, I was merely addressing the misunderstanding of the GP regarding the reflection packages constructs.

The interface is your basic (irreducible) disconnected/unbound procedure invocation API, with all the positive/warts associated. I agree that in principle, we have enough information in the reflection data structure to allow a (specific) JVM implementation to provide a non-standard 'method object' feature. Consensus, possibly? (Good question, really. C. Nutter is one to hit with that one.)