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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
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Subject: Re: How does it know?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:48:45 -0700
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On 9/14/2014 06:52, Mike Amling wrote:
> 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
> Tm8gbmVlZCBmb3IgMS44LCBqdXN0IDEuMg==

That works and I guess that's what I'm going to end up with.  I just 
thought that since you can put test1.main() in a program that you could 
get there from a String without quite so much code.

Thanks everybody for all the answers!

knute...