Re: [jruby-user] Re: Differences Between MyClass.class and getClass() in JRuby

> I'm getting the expected result.

That's because inspect is calling toString() which outputs "class ...".
If you look at the ruby class you can see the difference:

~ >cat /tmp/reflect.rb
klass = java.lang.String
p klass.new.get_class.class
p klass.java_class.class
p klass.new.get_class.declared_fields[0].generic_type
p klass.java_class.declared_fields[0].generic_type
~ >ruby -v !!:$
ruby -v /tmp/reflect.rb
jruby 1.7.12 (1.9.3p392) 2014-06-20 643e292 on Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit
Server VM 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609 [darwin-x86_64]
Java::JavaLang::Class
Java::JavaClass
class [C
NoMethodError: undefined method `generic_type' for private final char[]
java.lang.String.value:Java::JavaField
  (root) at /tmp/reflect.rb:5