What is the purpose of java.lang.reflect.Array's getter and setter methods?

Question

Java Class java.lang.reflect.Array provides a set of tools for creating an array dynamically. However in addition to that it has a whole set of methods for accessing (get, set,

Answer 1

These methods relieve you from the burden of checking and casting the array yourself, if all you know is "that object is an array of some (possibly primitive) type".

I myself have seen uses of this only in frameworks and utilities, like commons-beanutils. This framework reflectively accesses properties of java beans, and uses the Array methods to access elements of array properties.