What’s an example of duck typing in Java?

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Java is by design not fit for duck typing. The way you might choose to do it is reflection:

public void doSomething(Object obj) throws Exception {

    obj.getClass().getMethod("getName", new Class<?>[] {}).invoke(obj);
}

But I would advocate doing it in a dynamic language, such as Groovy, where it makes more sense:

class Duck {
    quack() { println "I am a Duck" }
}

class Frog {
    quack() { println "I am a Frog" }
}

quackers = [ new Duck(), new Frog() ]
for (q in quackers) {
    q.quack()
}

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