Obtaining the value of a public static field by reflexion (See related posts)

        Object returnedObj = null;
        try {
            Class clazz = Class.forName("java.lang.Boolean");
            returnedObj = clazz.getField("TRUE").get(clazz);
            assert java.lang.Boolean.TRUE == returnedObj : "wrong returned object";
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return returnedObj;