Semi-Colonoscopy

Can you write a valid Java program to print out "Hello" on the standard output without using a single semi-colon in the source code?

When Srikanth asked me this question, my immediate and disingenious response was to hide the semi-colon using a Unicode escape sequence like this:

public class Sriki
{
  public static void main( String[] args)
  {
    System.out.println("Hello")\u003b
  }
}

However, he has a better solution:

public class Sriki
{
  public static void main( String[] args) throws Exception
  {
    if( System.out.getClass( ).getMethod(
      "println",
      new Class[] { String.class}).invoke(
        System.out,
        new Object[] { "Hello"}) == null)
    {
    }
  }
}

Can you come up with a better solution?

(Originally posted on Advogato.)

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