Why does ComponentConfigurationFactory.create pass classname as part of init

[David Capwell]

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?

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