Java Class Load classForName(String name)

Description

copied here from ObjectUtil to make the package org.jacorb.test.common independent from the orb core

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Class<?> classForName(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException, IllegalArgumentException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w  ww  .java  2 s  . c o  m*/
 *        JacORB - a free Java ORB
 *
 *   Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Gerald Brose / The JacORB Team.
 *
 *   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 *   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 *   Library General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
 *   License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
 *   Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 *
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * copied here from ObjectUtil to make the package org.jacorb.test.common independent from the orb core
     */
    public static Class<?> classForName(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException, IllegalArgumentException {
        if (name == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Class name must not be null!");
        }

        try {
            // Here we prefer classLoader.loadClass() over the three-argument
            // form of Class.forName(), as the latter is reported to cause
            // caching of stale Class instances (due to a buggy cache of
            // loaded classes).
            return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(name);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // As a fallback, we prefer Class.forName(name) because it loads
            // array classes (i.e., it handles arguments like
            // "[Lsome.class.Name;" or "[[I;", which classLoader.loadClass()
            // does not handle).
            return Class.forName(name);
        }
    }
}

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