How do I invoke a Java method when given the method name as a string?

Question

If I have two variables:

Object obj;
String methodName = \"getName\";

Without knowing the class of obj, how can I call the met

Answer 1

for me a pretty simple and fool proof way would be to simply make a method caller method like so:

public static object methodCaller(String methodName)
{
    if(methodName.equals("getName"))
        return className.getName();
}

then when you need to call the method simply put something like this

//calling a toString method is unnessary here, but i use it to have my programs to both rigid and self-explanitory 
System.out.println(methodCaller(methodName).toString());