I believe (without direct knowledge): -This class is a side-effect of moving to different transports. -There is a way to use directly the xmlrpc or embed driver
This class exists for backwards compatibility, to remove the requirement to specify the xmlrpc driver explicitly. Your probably right about the reflected construction, not sure why it does the class.forName. I'll take a look. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin O'Neill Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Class.forName ? org.apache.xindice.client.xmldb.DatabaseImpl uses class for name to load classes that seem local to the package. As Class is in the system classloader, if xindice is not loaded by the system class loader then the driver classes may not be visable. getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass( "foo" ); would be safer. There is no way for the user to change what classes are used so why aren't the instances just constructed (am I missing something?)? -k.
