https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/UDF-reflect-is-not-allowed-beeline/m-p/155073#M117512 <P>desc function reflect; Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: UDF reflect is not allowed (state=08S01,code=1)</P><P>it is working with hive though:</P><P>hive&gt; describe function reflect; OK reflect(class,method[,arg1[,arg2..]]) calls method with reflection Time taken: 1.973 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s)</P> Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:48:58 GMT chrsvarma 2016-04-04T22:48:58Z