Dynamically load and instantiate unknown classes at runtime.

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From: Brent Peckover
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00

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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?

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Date: 1999/03/20
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