Name: mc57594 Date: 02/10/97


There are classes for the primitive types, but you
can't access them through their names, only indirectly,
for example by having a class with a field of that
type. Try the following example:


public class Test {

public static int i;

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Class intClass = Class.forName("Test").getField("i").getType();
    System.out.println("Int Type: " + intClass);
    System.out.println(Class.forName("int"));
}
}


// Results in:

Int Type: int
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: int
        at Test.main(Test.java:8)

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