How to determine inheritance hierarchy of a class???

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D. Beckham - 23 May 2004 10:35 GMT

I am trying to write a method that take a Class object as param and then
determines all the classes in the Class object's inheritance hierarchy. Can
somebody give me a pointer to get started? Thanks

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Andrew Thompson - 23 May 2004 10:58 GMT

> I am trying to write a method that take a Class object as param and then
> determines all the classes in the Class object's inheritance hierarchy. Can
> somebody give me a pointer to get started?

<http://www.physci.org/api.jsp?class=java.lang.Class>

Especially Class.getSuperclass()

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Roedy Green - 23 May 2004 16:52 GMT

>I am trying to write a method that take a Class object as param and then
>determines all the classes in the Class object's inheritance hierarchy. Can
>somebody give me a pointer to get started? Thanks

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/classforname.html

There are tools to get he parent of a class. You chase it on up till
you get to object.

Look at the methods of the Class object. This does not require
reflection.

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