/* * Copyright (c) 2001, 2006, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ // NewInstance.java - create a new instance of a class by name. // http://www.saxproject.org // Written by Edwin Goei, edwingo@apache.org // and by David Brownell, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net // NO WARRANTY! This class is in the Public Domain. // $Id: NewInstance.java,v 1.2 2005/06/10 03:50:50 jeffsuttor Exp $ package org.xml.sax.helpers; import java.lang.reflect.Method; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; /** * Create a new instance of a class by name. * * <blockquote> * <em>This module, both source code and documentation, is in the * Public Domain, and comes with <strong>NO WARRANTY</strong>.</em> * See <a href='http://www.saxproject.org'>http://www.saxproject.org</a> * for further information. * </blockquote> * * <p>This class contains a static method for creating an instance of a * class from an explicit class name. It tries to use the thread's context * ClassLoader if possible and falls back to using * Class.forName(String).</p> * * <p>This code is designed to compile and run on JDK version 1.1 and later * including versions of Java 2.</p> * * @author Edwin Goei, David Brownell * @version 2.0.1 (sax2r2) */ class NewInstance { private static final String DEFAULT_PACKAGE = "com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal"; /** * Creates a new instance of the specified class name * * Package private so this code is not exposed at the API level. */ static Object newInstance (ClassLoader classLoader, String className) throws ClassNotFoundException, IllegalAccessException, InstantiationException { // make sure we have access to restricted packages boolean internal = false; if (System.getSecurityManager() != null) { if (className != null && className.startsWith(DEFAULT_PACKAGE)) { internal = true; } } Class driverClass; if (classLoader == null || internal) { driverClass = Class.forName(className); } else { driverClass = classLoader.loadClass(className); } return driverClass.newInstance(); } }