Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:35:50 -0600 Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:35 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Poll: Is a Java Method an Instance of the Java Class java.lang.reflect.Method? Please reply with YES or NO. References: <7747b7da-e579-4514-bdff-a9eb8842cc51@l16g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <7048daa8-8341-4136-94e5-f51c4a54f253@dn8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <7048daa8-8341-4136-94e5-f51c4a54f253@dn8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.206.198 X-Trace: sv3-dPBQ7rRQ8/fVLB9thCQCnJhRkyaaPE+TXSVyNfrT/MEdxi+s8lzQ/hvPwGB50rPwhxiSZHV6pPzoLqa!WgKvjeIozEfJuQso1rlDVTlj1ReDOpI1Nfs2ybPX/ys25yEgDJriADtotMl9fXIUCSrTKFu34Fsj!gFTuZ43OlCc0Ydp8+LdpqPlASBaqy3XsA1rpdDAmiIsHyPw= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2136 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11818 Paul Cager wrote: > On Feb 7, 5:58 am, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> On 2/5/2012 8:56 AM, Paka Small wrote: > ... >>> Poll: Is a Java Method an Instance of the Java Class >>> java.lang.reflect.Method? >> Historically, JDK 1.0 had methods, but not java.lang.reflect. If methods >> were instances of java.lang.reflect.Method they could not have existed >> before the class existed. > > Much as I agree with your conclusion, I'm not sure about your logic > there. You could say that JDK 1.0 had java.util.Hashtable but not > java.util.Map; therefore Hashtable cannot implement Map. I think an object existing before its class is a lot more problematic than a class existing before an interface it implements. Patricia