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// 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
*/
class NewInstance {
/**
* 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
{
Class driverClass;
if (classLoader == null) {
driverClass = Class.forName(className);
} else {
driverClass = classLoader.loadClass(className);
}
return driverClass.newInstance();
}
/**
* Figure out which ClassLoader to use. For JDK 1.2 and later use
* the context ClassLoader.
*/
static ClassLoader getClassLoader ()
{
Method m = null;
try {
m = Thread.class.getMethod("getContextClassLoader", (Class[]) null);
} catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
// Assume that we are running JDK 1.1, use the current ClassLoader
return NewInstance.class.getClassLoader();
}
try {
return (ClassLoader) m.invoke(Thread.currentThread(), (Object[]) null);
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
// assert(false)
throw new UnknownError(e.getMessage());
} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
// assert(e.getTargetException() instanceof SecurityException)
throw new UnknownError(e.getMessage());
}
}
}