About getClass() method usage

[Shankara Sharma]

What does the below statements mean?

ClassA classA=new ClassA();

classA.getClass(); -> What this statement will do at runtime?

Will it return the name of the class?

[Jeff Verdegan]

Shankara Sharma wrote:

classA.getClass(); -> What this statement will do at runtime?

Will it return the name of the class?

You'll want to become acquainted with the API docs: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#getClass()

[Shankara Sharma]

public final Class<?> getClass()

Returns the runtime class of this Object. The returned Class object is the object that is locked by static synchronized methods of the represented class.

What does Class Object and Class<?> mean?

[Henry Wong]

Shankara Sharma wrote:What does Class Object and Class<?> mean?

A Class object is an instance of the Class class. And the Class class supports generics -- so <?> is just a wildcard if you are not specific on which class you want access to.

Henry

[Jeff Verdegan]

Shankara Sharma wrote:p
What does Class Object

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html

and Class<?> mean?

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