Hi
I found out through some investigation, you were correct, you use the method
Method.invoke, if you do not pass in an object as the first parameter it
calls the method as static.
Thanks
John Colvin
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From: "John McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Get static instance of Peer dynamically
> I am not an expert using reflection but I think you will need to get an
> instance to pass to the Method.invoke command whether the method is
> static or not. Is there some other way to invoke the method? It seems
> like there should be so that you could use reflection on an abstract
> class. It is not required in the case of Peers however since nothing
> prevents you from getting an instance of the class. You should be able
> to invoke the method regardless of it being static.
>
> john mcnally
>
> John Colvin wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > Is there a way that I can get a static instance of a peer class by using
Class.forName() or a class loader. I am writing an application that
contructs simple forms for updating databases dynamically by reading the
database Map, TableMap and ColumnMaps an generating the forms on the fly.
> >
> > When I come to do a select/update/delete I would like to load a static
instance by constructing a string for the class name and then load this
class statically.
> >
> > ie from this :
> >
> > String class name = "com.mywebsite.application. " + tablename + "Peer";
> >
> > I know how to get an instance but I want the class as a static as the
peer methods are static and I would like to call them.
> >
> > Rgrds
> > John
> >
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