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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: How does it know?
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:18:12 -0700
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On 9/12/2014 09:18, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes:
>> Adding the .class files to a .jar and running it produces the same:
>
>    To reproduce what you are doing, it might help, when you
>    give /every/ command used in the sequence used in addition
>    to the source code, if the problem should still persist.
>
>> The second question is, what type is test.main()?
>> I want to be able to put it into a Map.
>
> public final class Main
> { public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
>    { final java.util.Map
>      < java.util.function.Consumer< java.lang.String[] >,
>        java.util.function.Consumer< java.lang.String[] >> map =
>      new java.util.HashMap<>();
>      map.put( Main::main, Main::main ); }}
>

What is Main::main, is it a Method?  You can't call Main::main.invoke(). 
  I'd like to figure out a way to store some sort of a reference to 
Main.main() so that I could execute it.

Maybe I'm barking up a non-existent tree?

Thanks,

knute...