According to, http://www.freshvanilla.org:8080/display/www/Java+Interview+Questions Under, Which class is the superclass of every class? null seems to be the answer. I found that new Object().getClass().getSuperClass() verifies the answer as correct. But can null be considered a class? I see all primitive data types are represented as Class objects from java[dot]sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html