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What does .class mean in, for example, MyClass.class? I understand that when you put the name of a class and the point it is used to access its static fields or methods, but that doesn't relate to '.class'
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What Does Class Mean? A class — in the context of Java — is a template used to create objects and to define object data types and methods. Classes are categories, and objects are items within each category. All class objects should have the basic class properties.
This '. class' method is used in Java for code Reflection. Generally you can gather meta data for your class such as the full qualified class name, list of constants, list of public fields, etc, etc.
A class reference is a special meta type that can be used to refer to classes (not instances of them) within a certain subtree of the class hierarchy. This allows to write code that can work polymorphically with classes – for example dynamically instantiate different subclasses or call virtual static methods.
class: a class describes the contents of the objects that belong to it: it describes an aggregate of data fields (called instance variables), and defines the operations (called methods). object: an object is an element (or instance) of a class; objects have the behaviors of their class.
SomeClass.class gets the Class<SomeClass> type which you can use for programming using the reflection API.
You can get the same type if you have an instance of the class using instance.getClass().
You can check out the documentation here. For example, you can:
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