How can the name of an object be determined in your code?

In Java, an object does not have its own name — the name is assigned to the reference to the object in the code. To determine the "name" of an object, you usually look at the variable name that refers to this object.

If you need to get the class name of the object, you can use the method getClass().getSimpleName():

Object obj = new String("Example");
System.out.println(obj.getClass().getSimpleName()); // Will output "String"

However, if you want to get the name of the variable referring to the object, this is not possible directly at runtime, because variable names exist only at compile time and are not stored in the bytecode.

For debugging or logging, methods that return class information are often used, or the toString() method is overridden to output useful information about the object.