Java program to get the name of the superclass

Java example to get the name of the superclass.
Submitted by Nidhi, on May 04, 2022

Problem statement

In this program, we will get the name of the superclass using the getSuperclass() method and print the result.

Source Code

The source code to get the name of the superclass is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to get the name of the 
// superclass

class A 
{}

class B extends A 
{}

public class Main
{
	public static void main(String[] args)  throws ClassNotFoundException
	{
	    	Class cls = B.class; 
        
        		System.out.println("The superclass is: "+cls.getSuperclass());
	}
}

Output

The superclass is: class A

Explanation

In the above program, we created a public class Main that contains a main() method. The main() method is the entry point for the program. Here, we created a class A and inherited the class A into class B. After that, we get the superclass name using the getSuperclass() method in the main() method and printed the result.