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Hi,

I am currently working on an ORB and need to identify the class via its
name.

1. I know I can instanciate and object and obtain its class name this way
    AClass instance = new AClass();
    String name = instance.getClass().getName();

2. Or I know I can get a classes definition via the class attribute
    String name = AClass.class.getName();

I have two questions:

a) Is accessing the "class" attribute correct. I could not get info. on this
field. Does it
belong to Object ? Where is this info. ?

b) Say I want to pass a Class object as a parameter. Is there any way I can
access this information
without instantiating an object as I did in 1. ?
ex:

class AClass
{
}

class A
{
 call( Class cls ){}
}

A a = new A()
a.call( AClass )  <---

TIA.

Hugo Ferreira.