Accessing every child class of parent class in Java

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Published on 2010-04-23T00:00:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 0:03 UTC
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Hi All,

I have to implement a logic whereby given a child class, I need to access its parent class and all other child class of that parent class, if any. I did not find any API in Java Reflection which allows us to access all child classes of a parent class. Is there any way to do it?

Ex. class B extends class A class C extends class A

Now using class B, I can find the superclass by calling getSuperClass(). But is there any way to find all the child classes once I have the parent class i.e. class B and class C??

Regards, darkie

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