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From: Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: How does it know?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:52:55 -0500
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On 9/12/14 6:18 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>   I'd like to figure out a way to store some sort of a reference to
> Main.main() so that I could execute it.

Any reason you don't want to use plain old reflection?

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.HashMap;
...

Method callme;
try {
     callme=test1.class.getDeclaredMethod("main",
      new Class[]{new String[0].getClass()});
} catch (final NoSuchMethodException n) {
     return;
}
HashMap<String, Method> store=new HashMap<String, Method>();
store.put("main", callme);


try {
     store.get("main").invoke(null, new Object[]{new String[0]});
} catch (final IllegalAccessException a) {
} catch (final InvocationTargetException t) {
}

--Mike Amling
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