I am interating through classes in a Jar file and wish to find those which are not abstract. I can solve this by instantiating the classes and trapping InstantiationException but that has a performance hit as some classes have heavy startup. I can't find anything obviously like isAbstract() in the Class.java docs.
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It'll have abstract as one of its modifiers when you call getModifiers() on the class object.
This link should help.
Modifier.isAbstract( someClass.getModifiers() );
Also:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Modifier.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getModifiers()
Class myClass = myJar.load("classname");
bool test = Modifier.isAbstract(myClass.getModifiers());
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