public final class Class<T>

Returns the Class object associated with the class with the given string name. Given the fully-qualified name for a class or interface, this method attempts to locate, load and link the class. For example, the following code fragment returns the runtime Class descriptor for the class named java.lang.Thread: Classt= Class.forName(“java.lang.Thread”)

Returns the fully-qualified name of the entity (class, interface, array class, primitive type, or void) represented by this Class object, as a String. If this Class object represents a class of arrays, then the internal form of the name consists of the name of the element type in Java signature format, preceded by one or more “[” characters representing the depth of array nesting. Thus: (new Object[3]).getClass().getName() returns “[Ljava.lang.Object;” and: (new int[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]).getClass().getName() returns “[[[[[[[I”. The encoding of element type names is as follows: B byte C char D double F float I int J long L class or interface S short Z boolean The class or interface name is given in fully qualified form as shown in the example above.

Finds a resource with a given name in the application’s JAR file. This method returns null if no resource with this name is found in the application’s JAR file. The resource names can be represented in two different formats: absolute or relative. Absolute format: /packagePathName/resourceName Relative format: resourceName In the absolute format, the programmer provides a fully qualified name that includes both the full path and the name of the resource inside the JAR file. In the path names, the character “/” is used as the separator. In the relative format, the programmer provides only the name of the actual resource. Relative names are converted to absolute names by the system by prepending the resource name with the fully qualified package name of class upon which the getResourceAsStream method was called.

Determines if this Class object represents an array class.

Determines if the class or interface represented by this Class object is either the same as, or is a superclass or superinterface of, the class or interface represented by the specified Class parameter. It returns true if so; otherwise it returns false. If this Class object represents a primitive type, this method returns true if the specified Class parameter is exactly this Class object; otherwise it returns false. Specifically, this method tests whether the type represented by the specified Class parameter can be converted to the type represented by this Class object via an identity conversion or via a widening reference conversion. See The Java Language Specification, sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.4 , for details.

Determines if the specified Object is assignment-compatible with the object represented by this Class. This method is the dynamic equivalent of the Java language instanceof operator. The method returns true if the specified Object argument is non-null and can be cast to the reference type represented by this Class object without raising a ClassCastException. It returns false otherwise. Specifically, if this Class object represents a declared class, this method returns true if the specified Object argument is an instance of the represented class (or of any of its subclasses); it returns false otherwise. If this Class object represents an array class, this method returns true if the specified Object argument can be converted to an object of the array class by an identity conversion or by a widening reference conversion; it returns false otherwise. If this Class object represents an interface, this method returns true if the class or any superclass of the specified Object argument implements this interface; it returns false otherwise. If this Class object represents a primitive type, this method returns false.

Determines if the specified Class object represents an interface type.

Creates a new instance of a class.

Converts the object to a string. The string representation is the string “class” or “interface”, followed by a space, and then by the fully qualified name of the class in the format returned by getName. If this Class object represents a primitive type, this method returns the name of the primitive type. If this Class object represents void this method returns “void”.

Returns this element’s annotation for the specified type if such an annotation is present, else null.

Returns all annotations present on this element.

Returns all annotations that are directly present on this element.

Returns true if an annotation for the specified type is present on this element, else false.

Replacement for Class.asSubclass(Class).

Replacement for Class.cast(Object). Throws a ClassCastException if obj is not an instance of class c, or a subtype of c.

Replacement for Class.isEnum().

replacement for Class.isAnonymousClass()

replacement for Class.isSynthetic()

Gets for Array classes, this returns the type of the elements of the array.

Returns true if this class is a primitive type.

Returns null always. Not supported in CN1.