Question

Does anyone know how to get the declaring / enclosing class of an abstract class in Java? In this case, I would like to get the anotherClass class from within someClass.

Example:

public class anotherClass extends someClass{
...
}

public abstract class someClass{
...
   this.getClass().getEnclosingClass();
}

Answer 1

If you call this.getClass() in an abstract class it will still return the class of the actual implementation. In your case calling this.getClass() will return anotherClass, which is what you want if I am not wrong.