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    <p>I'm facing something that I don't think is solvable, but it's worth a try. Assume you have the following classes :</p> <pre><code>package a; public class A { protected A() {} public static void staticMethod(A a) { // ... } } public class B extends A { public B() {} } </code></pre> <p>So you can instantiate <code>B</code> from other packages, but not <code>A</code>. Now assume you want to use <code>Class.getMethod</code>, only you're using some kind of reflexivity framework that goes something like :</p> <pre><code>public Object callStaticMethod(Class c, String methodname, Object[] args) { Class[] signature = new Class[args.length]; for (i = 0 ; i &lt; args.length ; ++i) { signature[i] = args.getClass(); } Method m = c.getMethod("methodname", signature); return m.invoke(null, args) } </code></pre> <p>This method is given to me as-is, and sadly I can not improve it. Now you may want to call the method like this :</p> <pre><code>package b; B b; callStaticMethod(A.class, "staticMethod", b); </code></pre> <p>...Except that will not work, because the signature generated (based on <code>getClass()</code> results will be <code>{B.class}</code>, and there is no method called <code>staticMethod</code> in <code>A</code> which takes a <code>B</code> as parameter. </p> <p>Would any of you know about that ?</p> <p><strong>BONUS</strong> : As an additional challenge, is there a way, with this method, to call <code>staticMethod</code> with a null parameter (which may also be perfectly valid, semantically)? I personally haven't found a way to.</p>
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    1. COTell the person who wrote the framework that it's broken, because it doesn't follow the method resolution process described in the [JLS](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se5.0/html/expressions.html#15.12.2).
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    2. COI just noticed that the framework's method is an instance method. Do you have any ability to override the framework class?
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    3. COSadly, I can't either. I'll just wait for a few more days, and then I'll close this question, the correct answer being: blame original author :)
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