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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {@var{val} =} java_get (@var{obj}, @var{name})
+## Get the value of the field @var{name} of the Java object @var{obj}.  For
+## static fields, @var{obj} can be a string representing the fully qualified
+## name of the corresponding class.
+## 
+## When @var{obj} is a regular Java object, structure-like indexing can be
+## used as a shortcut syntax.  For instance, the two following statements are
+## equivalent
+## 
+## @example
+## @group
+##   java_get (x, "field1")
+##   x.field1
+## @end group
+## @end example
+## 
+## @seealso{java_set, java_invoke, javaObject}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = java_get (obj, name)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "java_get is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; use structure-like indexing instead");
+  endif
+
+  if (nargin != 2)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  if (isjava (obj))
+    retval = obj.(name);
+  elseif (ischar (obj))
+    ## FIXME: Need a solution for getting static fields of class
+    ##        which does not depend on __java_get__ which will be removed.
+    retval = __java_get__ (obj, name);
+  else
+    error ("java_get: OBJ must be a Java object");
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+