From: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reflect/member/ctorInstance.html There are two reflective methods for creating instances of classes: java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.html#newInstance%28java.lang.Object...%29) and Class.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#newInstance%28%29). The former is preferred and is thus used in these examples because: Class.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#newInstance%28%29) can only invoke the zero-argument constructor, while Constructor.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.html#newInstance%28java.lang.Object...%29) may invoke any constructor, regardless of the number of parameters. Class.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#newInstance%28%29) throws any exception thrown by the constructor, regardless of whether it is checked or unchecked. InvocationTargetException (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/InvocationTargetException.html). Class.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#newInstance%28%29) requires that the constructor be visible; Constructor.newInstance() (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.html#newInstance%28java.lang.Object...%29) may invoke private constructors under certain circumstances.
Thanks, Hari -- Hari Shreedharan On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM, David Capwell wrote: > I was going over the flume 1.2.0 code and i was wondering why > the ComponentConfigurationFactory.create class has the following: > > confType = (Class<? extends ComponentConfiguration>) Class.forName(type); > return confType.getConstructor(String.class).newInstance(type); > > Since type is the class, then why does the the class need a constructor > that puts in the class name? > > thanks for your time reading this email.
