Java equivalent to C# dynamic class type?

Question

I\'m coming from the world of c#.

in C# i am able to use the class dynamic http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264741.aspx

This allows me to not have t

Answer 1

There's nothing equivalent in Java. The closest thing you could do is declare a variable of type Object but then you have to cast that variable to whatever you're expecting in order to invoke any method on it that's not implemented by Object (or use reflection but that's sloooow).

Java is a strongly typed language. I think for the next version there will be some dynamic typing, to allow for closures, but that's next year or more probably 2012.

In Groovy you can just use "def" to declare a variable without a type, and the type will be resolved at runtime. And you can compile the Groovy code to Java bytecode...