Get the list of packages, classes in packages and methods in class

[Serkan Demir]

Hi everybody,

I am working on a code generation project with Velocity. In order to use as parameters, I have to get the list of packages, classes in packages and methods in classes and put them into different array lists.
Is there any built-in libraries or java methods for these operation?

thanks lot,

Serkan

[Satish SN]

U can get the Information from java.lang.Class

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

java.lang.Class can, indeed, tell you the methods in a class; but the only way to get a list of packages or a list of classes in a package is by examining the class path and searching for .class files both in and out of JAR files along that class path. This is a bit easier if you can limit the scope of your query to the classes loaded by a custom classloader that you created yourself, so you know exactly where it's searching.

This is not even close to a "Beginner" topic, so I'm going to move this to Java in General (Intermediate).