RunTime Type Information - RTTI

Tomorrow [25-02-2007] we will have a lecture on RTTI or Run Time Type Information. We will learn various aspects of the Java language that help us get and use information of types at run time.

• Revisit instanceof
• Understand the class Class
• Understand introspection in Java
• Getting details of a class using Class
• Instantiating a class at runtime without knowing it's type at compile time
• Invoking methods of classes at runtime
• Understanding how Java Beans work