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Get the class name with or without the packageTag(s): Varia


public class ClassUtils {
  // returns the class (without the package if any)
  public static String getClassName(Class c) {
    String FQClassName = c.getName();
    int firstChar;
    firstChar = FQClassName.lastIndexOf ('.') + 1;
    if ( firstChar > 0 ) {
      FQClassName = FQClassName.substring ( firstChar );
      }
    return FQClassName;
    }


  // returns package and class name
  public static String getFullClassName(Class c) {
    return  c.getName();
    }

  // returns the package without the classname, empty string if
  // there is no package
  public static String getPackageName(Class c) {
    String fullyQualifiedName = c.getName();
    int lastDot = fullyQualifiedName.lastIndexOf ('.');
    if (lastDot==-1){ return ""; }
    return fullyQualifiedName.substring (0, lastDot);
   }
   
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getClassName(java.awt.Frame.class));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getFullClassName(java.awt.Frame.class));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getPackageName(java.awt.Frame.class));
    System.out.println("----");
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getClassName(ClassUtils.class));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getFullClassName(ClassUtils.class));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getPackageName(ClassUtils.class));
    System.out.println("----");
    java.util.Calendar cal = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getClassName(cal.getClass()));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getFullClassName(cal.getClass()));
    System.out.println(ClassUtils.getPackageName(cal.getClass()));
    }
}
The output
Frame
java.awt.Frame
java.awt
----
ClassUtils
ClassUtils

----
GregorianCalendar
java.util.GregorianCalendar
java.util
Thanks to L. Janovszki for the idea

Alternate way to get only the package name (null if there is no package) :

Class cls = java.lang.String.class;
Package pkg = cls.getPackage();
String name = pkg.getName();        // java.lang