List of packages and classes within packages?

[AdamRice32]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if there's a way to get a list of all packages in a ClassLoader, and also a list of all of the classes within each package? I imagine that this is possible because several IDEs do it (Forte, for example).

Other than extending ClassLoader and using the protected getPackages() method, I don't see a way of doing this using the standard API.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Adam Rice

 

[AdamRice32]

Okay, so a follow-up if anyone's interested... there's a static getPackages() method in the Package class that returns an array of all Package objects in the caller's class loader.

However, I still cannot find a way to get a list of all of the classes in a particular package. You might think there would be an instance method in Class named getClasses() or something similar to do this, but alas there is not.

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam