Re: Class.getMethod in class's static initializer block

If I call A.class.getMethod() from static initializer block of class
A, I get NoSuchMethodException.

Example:

class A {
    static Method m;

    private static void method(String str) {
        System.out.println(str);
    }

    static {
        try {
            m = A.class.getMethod("method", new Class[] {String.class});
        } catch(NoSuchMethodException e) {
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
        }
    }
}

This code always throws the ExceptionInInitializerError caused by
NoSuchMethodException.
Why does this happen?

Actually, I would like to write something like this:

class A {
    private static void method(String str) {
        System.out.println(str);
    }
    static Method m = A.method;
}

Of course, this code is invalid, but my idea is that the presence of
method is known at compile time, so I don't want the overhead of
reflection and I'd rather get a compilation error if there is no such
method. Something similar is possible with function pointers in C, but
is there sth. like that in Java?

Thanks for any help!