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Brent Peckover wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to create an application which will allow itself to be
> extended without requiring the original code.  Information comes into a
> control thread, and is then synchronously passed to a list of classes
> which are not know at design time.
> 
> How do I tell Java to Load a class (say I get the required class name
> out of a text file at runtime), create an instance of the class, and
> then call the new instance's methods (which may also be listed in the
> file)?
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?

JavaWorld's Bill Venners has looked at both reflection (runtime class
info) _and_ dynamic extension in columns. You can check them out here :

Design with runtime class information -
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-1999/jw-02-techniques.html
Design with dynamic extension -
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-1999/jw-01-techniques.html

Hope this helps =)

Iain Lowe