Arrays of arbitrary dimensions / Class object for primitive types

Question

Here's an interesting problem: is there any way to code for the creation of an n-dimensional array where n is only known at runtime (input by user, etc.)?
java.lang.reflect.Array has a newInstance method which returns an array of an arbitrary number of dimensions specified by the int[] argument, which would give me what I want. However, the other argument is a Class object representing the component type of the array. If you want to use this method to get an array of a primitive type, is it possible to get a Class object representing a primitive type?

Answer 1

Devil is in the detailspublic class Test2 {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Object[] myArray = new Object[10];
    fillDimensionalArray(myArray, 5, 5);
  public static void fillDimensionalArray(Object[] array, int dim, int size) {
    if (dim==1) {
      for (int i=0; i<size; i++) {
        array[i] = new int[size];
        for (int j=0; j<size; j++) ((int[])array)[j]=999;
} else {
for (int i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
array[i] = new Object[size];
for (int j=0; j<size; j++) {
fillDimensionalArray( (Object[]) array[i], dim - 1, size);