I am trying to write a bean copy tool but am finding it hard to get the
results form a getter method?

I have already written a successful version of this tool that transfers
columns from a sql result set to a bean so am not daunted by reflection but
am confused as to how I invoke a method that returns a value.

The code I am attempting to use to obtain the String result form the getter
method of the bean is this.

private static String getBeanField(Object bean, String fieldName)
{
       String value = "";
       String methodName = "get" + fieldName;

       try
       {
               // Get the class type of the bean.
               Class beanClass = bean.getClass();
               // Get the method to be invoked
               Method beanMethod = beanClass.getMethod(fieldName, null);
               // Invoke the method against the bean with the parameter arguments
               value = (String)beanMethod.invoke(bean, null);
       }
       catch (Throwable e)
       {
               // Empty catch.
       }

       return(value);
}

The bean looks like this

class Bean
{
       private String firstName;

       public void Bean(String value)
       {
               setFirstName(value);
       }

       public void setFirstName(String value)
       {
               firstName = value;
       }

       public String getFirstName()
       {
               return(firstName);
       }

}

And I try the above code like this

Bean bean = new Bean("Pep");
String firstName = getBeanField(bean, "FirstName");

but the value returned from getBeanField is always "".

TIA,
Pep.