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+## Copyright (C) 2007, 2013 Michael Goffioul
+##
+## 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  {Function File} {} javafields (@var{javaobj})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} javafields ("@var{classname}")
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{fld_names} =} javafields (@dots{})
+## Return the fields of a Java object or Java class in the form of a cell 
+## array of strings.  If no output is requested, print the result
+## to the standard output.
+## @seealso{fieldnames, methods, javaObject}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function fld_names = javafields (javaobj)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "javafields is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use fieldnames instead");
+  endif
+  
+  if (nargin != 1)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+  
+  c_methods = javaMethod ("getFields", "org.octave.ClassHelper", javaobj);
+  method_list = ostrsplit (c_methods, ';');
+
+  if (nargout == 0)
+    if (! isempty (method_list))
+      disp (method_list);
+    endif
+  else
+    fld_names = cellstr (method_list);
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+