General Java Questions IV

My class name with qualifiers is 44 characters long, I can only imagine that there

must be a limit ....

Answer: From the JVM Spec 2   4.2

Class and interface names...fully qualified name...as

CONSTANT_Utf8_info.

That structure, CONSTANT_Utf8_info, places a limit of 64k on the length. But for a

class this is the fully qualified name, so the maximum length of the name could be

less.

jschell

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