fauxfaux / jtype

A small library for working with the Java 5 type system.

JType

Java 5 introduced a richer type system for generics with Type and its various subtypes, but lacks any easy way to perform common operations on these types. JType aims to fill this gap.

Features

• A factory to easily create implementations of the various type interfaces.

• Methods to compare and manipulate type instances, such as checking whether a type is a subtype of another.

• A generic type literal that provides an equivalent of class literals for types.

Getting started

To start using JType in a Maven project, add the following dependency to the POM:

<project>
	...
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.googlecode.jtype</groupId>
			<artifactId>jtype</artifactId>
			<version>0.1.3</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	...
</project>

JType is deployed to Sonatype's OSS Repository and synced with the Maven Central Repository, so no repository definitions are required.

Links

• Javadoc
• Google Group

License

• Apache License 2.0