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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;

            driverClass = Class.forName(className);

        } else {

            driverClass = classLoader.loadClass(className);

        }

        return driverClass.newInstance();

    }

}