Determining and Testing Class of Object

• Suppose we have an object called obj. We get the class of obj by:

  • Class class = obj.getClass();

• and its name by:

  • String name = class.getName();

• One can also use instanceof in following fashion:

  • "foo" instanceof String

• evaluates to true, but

  • ( new mPoint(x,y) ) instanceof String

• evaluates to false.

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