Reflection in java

Reflection

Reflection is used to in java to obtain run-time information about class or method.

With reflection we can find

·       Number of instance methods.
·       Number of static methods.
·       Determining modifiers of the class.

etc.

Inorder to use reflection we must import java.lang.reflect.* pacackage.

class ReflectionTesting
{ 
public static void main (String [] args) 
{  
String s=new String ("Hello Reflection");
printParentclass (s);
 } 
static void printParentclass (Object s) 
{  
Class c=s.getClass (); 
Class sc=c.getSuperclass ();  
System.out.println ("NAME OF this CLASS : "+c.getName ());
System.out.println ("NAME OF parent CLASS : "+sc.getName ()); 
}
};