THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

For primitive types and void, the simple name, canonical name, and binary name are all the samethe keyword that presents that ty ...

circumstances when the type you want to cast to is represented by a type parameter and so you can't use an actual language-level ...

If an annotation method represents an annotation element with a Class type, and that class can not be found at runtime, then you ...

16.4. The Member classes The classes Field, Constructor, and Method all implement the interface Member, which has four methods f ...

public static voidsetAccessible(AccessibleObject[] array, boolean flag) A convenience method that sets the accessible flag for a ...

public static void setShortField(Object o, String name, short nv) throws NoSuchFieldException, IllegalAccessException { Field fi ...

This capability is provided for highly specialized contexts and is not intended for general usewe mention it only for completene ...

The most interesting use of a Method object is to reflectively invoke it: public Objectinvoke(Object onThis, Object... args)tHRo ...

The reflection-based code has semantically equivalent safety checks, although the checks that are made by the compiler for direc ...

for any sorting class (such as SimpleSortDouble) and it will be loaded and run. Note that whereas newInstance returns a T, Class ...

Uses the constructor represented by this Constructor object to create and initialize a new instance of the constructor's declari ...

16.9. Generic Type Inspection As you saw in Figure 16-1 on page 400, there are a number of interfaces to represent the different ...

of length one, containing String.class as its only element. The getOwnerType method (which perhaps would have been better called ...

MalformedParameterizedTypeException. 16.9.5. String Representations of Type Objects None of the interfaces described above defin ...

The second newInstance method takes an array of dimensions. The statement int[] dims = { 4, 4 }; double[][] matrix = (double[][] ...

16.10.1. Genericity and Dynamic Arrays Recall the toArray method of the SingleLinkQueue class from Chapter 11. We promised back ...

[5] For compilers that support "unchecked" as a warning type, this situation is an ideal candidate for use of the @SuppressWarni ...

methods = new ArrayList(); history = Collections.unmodifiableList(methods); } public static synchronized Object proxyFor(Object ...

return ctor.newInstance(new DebugProxy(obj)); The invocation handler's invoke method can throw Throwable. However, if invoke tHR ...

To make this work, you would provide a Player abstract class that players would extend to implement their strategy. When players ...