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+## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function file} {@var{P} =} javamethods (@var{class})
+##
+## Returns the methods of a Java object in the form of a cell
+## array of strings. If no output variable is
+## given, the result is simply printed on the standard output.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+## @seealso{methods}
+
+function varargout = javamethods (classname)
+
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ else
+ c_methods = java_invoke ("org.octave.ClassHelper", "getMethods", classname);
+ method_list = strsplit (c_methods, ';');
+
+ switch nargout
+ case 0
+ if (! isempty (method_list))
+ disp(method_list);
+ endif
+ case 1
+ varargout{1} = cellstr (method_list);
+ endswitch
+ endif
+
+endfunction