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From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Instance java.lang.Object.getClass() of Class Java Method on OO Tumia
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Paka Small wrote:
> Example code proving beyond any doubt that a method is an instance of
> the class java.lang.reflect.Method in Java:

No, it doesn't. Again, the Java Language Specification defines methods and 
objects, and they are not the same thing. I have pointed you to it.

>   public final void setValue(BaseObject baseObject, Object value) {
>     java.lang.reflect.Method setMethod = null;

'setMethod' is a variable, not a method.

>     try {
>       setMethod =
> baseObjectClass.getJavaClass().getMethod(this.getSetMethodName(), new
> Class[]{this.type});
>       } catch (NoSuchMethodException ex) {
>  
> Logger.getLogger(BaseObjectAttribute.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
>       } catch (SecurityException ex) {
>  
> Logger.getLogger(BaseObjectAttribute.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
>       }
>     try {
>       setMethod.invoke(baseObject, new Object[]{value});

'invoke()' is a method.

>     } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
>  
> Logger.getLogger(BaseObjectAttribute.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
>     } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
>  
> Logger.getLogger(BaseObjectAttribute.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
>     } catch (InvocationTargetException ex) {
>  
> Logger.getLogger(BaseObjectAttribute.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
>     }
>   }

How exactly do you imagine that this proves a method is a class instance? 

All your code proves is that there exists a class instance that can describe 
and invoke a particular method. There is nothing in your code that shows, let 
alone proves "beyond any doubt", that a method is an instance of a class. It 
couldn't, because a Java method is not an instance of a class.

-- 
Lew