Get list of attributes of an object in an List

Question

When there is an List, is there a possibility of getting List of all person.getName() out of that? Is there an prepared call for that

Answer 1

There is no other way to do this in Java than the one you suggested, at least as long as you are sticking with the standard Java Collection API.

I have been wishing for something like this for a long time... Especially since I tasted the sweet freedom of Ruby, which has wonderful things like collect and select working with closures.