Is there a way to determine what type a class is an instance of in Java?

Question

Say I have 3 classes like so:

class A {}
class B extends A {}
class C extends A {}

Would it then be possible to determine whether a particu

Answer 1

Do this:

if (myObject instanceof B) {
    // do something for B
} else (myObject instanceof C) {
    // do something for C
} else {
    // do something for A
}