hey all, is there a way in Groovy / Java (Reflection) to get all the instances of a given Class?

on behalf of java .. this is more a runtime profiling issue than type reflection.

jrsharp: i highly doubt it. that sounds like a very resource intensive task to perform.

yeah, I think I found another way to tackle it... But I was just wondering what reflection could do

cool, what did you find out?

interested.

well, I ended up finding that the references I needed were available in a private field of the class I was working with

so not very exciting