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Re: Q on static method reference to class
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Nov 1 18:47:51 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:45:43 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Bob,
> Suppose I want to refer to the class in a static method, eg to get the name
> of the class, or create a new instance... How do I do this? If I'm in an
> instance method, I can say (eg) "getClass().getName()". However, trying
> various things in a static method gets compiler errors. Surely there must
> be a way to do this cleanly without referring to the class by name?
Try this:
Class foo = Class.forName("Foo");
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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