Does Java have an “is kind of class” test method

Question

I have a baseclass, Statement, which several other classes inherit from, named IfStatement, WhereStatement, etc... What is the best way t

Answer 1

Try this:

if (Statement.class.isInstance(obj)) {
    doStuffWithStatements((Statement) obj));
}

since Class.isInstance() method takes an object instance as a parameter.