Reflection getMethods()

[Tad Dicks]

Is there a way to get just the methods defined by that class? and not get all the methods from classes it extends (like Object)?
or is there a way to differentiate where the method was defined using the Method Class? There is a method isSynthetic() and I haven't quite been able to figure out what that means.

-Tad

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Look at Class.getDeclaredMethods(), which returns only the Methods defined in that class.

A synthetic method is one added by the compiler to implement some language feature, as opposed to one you yourself wrote. Stay away from them. They don't like to be bothered.