Getting the name of a sub-class from within a super-class

Question

Let\'s say I have a base class named Entity. In that class, I have a static method to retrieve the class name:

class Entity {
    public static         


        

Answer 1

My context: superclass Entity with subclasses for XML objects. My solution: Create a class variable in the superclass

Class claz;

Then in the subclass I would set the variable of the superclass in the constructor

public class SubClass {
   public SubClass() {
     claz = this.getClass();
   }
}