java class b,类类[B在Java中表示什么？

I am trying out a tool jhat here to test my java memory usage. It reads in a heap dump file and prints out information as html. However, the tables shows as follows:

Class Instance Count Total Size

class [B 36585 49323821

class [Lcom.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage; 790 16254336

class [C 124512 12832896

class [I 23080 11923504

class [Ljava.lang.Object; 13614 6664528

class java.lang.String 108982 2179640

class java.lang.Integer 219502 878008

What are those [B [C etc classes?

解决方案

Those are arrays of primitives ([B == byte[], [C == char, [I == int). [Lx; is an array of class type x.

For a full list:

[Z = boolean

[B = byte

[S = short

[I = int

[J = long

[F = float

[D = double

[C = char

[L = any non-primitives(Object)

Also see the Javadoc for Class.getName.