Java program to get the simple name of the class

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

Problem statement

In this program, we will get the simple name of the class using the getSimpleName() method and print the result.

Source Code

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

// Java program to get the simple name of 
// the class

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    Class cls = Class.forName("java.lang.String");

    System.out.println("The class name associated with cls: " + cls.getName());
    System.out.println("The simple class name associated with cls: " + cls.getSimpleName());
  }
}

Output

The class name associated with cls1: A
The class name associated with cls2: Main

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 got the simple name of the "java.lang.String" class using the getSimpleName() method and printed the result.