You're right. I was forgetting about java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke.

But it is a PITA doing things that way, whereas C++ generic
programming is designed for duck typing.

Cheers

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:16:01PM -0600, Joshua Thorp wrote:
> You can do Duck typing in Java via methods requiring Objects (the base class 
> of all other Java objects) and using reflection to test for various 
> properties.  But it is working against the grain of the language to do so.  
> Intersting run down of various implementations here: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
> 
> --joshua

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