What does .class mean after a class name

Question

What does .class mean in, for example, MyClass.class? I understand that when you put the name of a class and the point it is used to access its sta

Answer 1

When you write .class after a class name, it references the Class object that represents the given class (formally, it is a named class literal). The the type of NombreClase.class is Class.

E.g., NombreClase.class is an object that represents the class NombreClase on runtime. It is the same object that is returned by the getClass() method of any (direct) instance of NombreClase.

NombreClase obj = new NombreClase();
System.out.println(NombreClase.class.getName());
System.out.println(obj.getClass().getName())