Re: Dynamically load and instantiate unknown classes at runtime.

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From: Matt the Rat
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00

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Brent Peckover wrote in message <36F3DDDE.2FF6DBD4@archiveware.net>...
>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)?


Look at the java.lang.reflect package and the Class class, in particular
Class.forName and Class.newInstance.

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