how do I get the object's type/class?

[emanresu]

How can I get an object's type/class? Here is what I am working on:

generally i have a tree, and the nodes of the tree can be of several classes, and also can be of primitive types. i am using DefaultMutableTreeNode to store all the nodes.

The problem is when I select a node on the tree, I can use the getLastPathComponent() to get the node, but only as a generic object. How can I determine what type of object it is so that I can handle different types of nodes accordingly?

Please help. thanks!

[emanresu]

never mind. found the answer myself.