com.ideo.sweetdevria.util
Class ClassUtils

java.lang.Object
  com.ideo.sweetdevria.util.ClassUtils

public class ClassUtils
extends java.lang.Object

Constructor Summary

ClassUtils()

Method Summary

static java.lang.Class	applicationClass(java.lang.String className) Return the Class object for the specified fully qualified class name, from this web application's class loader.
static java.lang.Object	applicationInstance(java.lang.String className) Return a new instance of the specified fully qualified class name, after loading the class from this web application's class loader.
static java.lang.ClassLoader	getClassLoader() Return the current class loader.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClassUtils

public ClassUtils()

Method Detail

applicationInstance

public static java.lang.Object applicationInstance(java.lang.String className)
                                            throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException,
                                                   java.lang.IllegalAccessException,
                                                   java.lang.InstantiationException

Return a new instance of the specified fully qualified class name, after loading the class from this web application's class loader. The specified class MUST have a public zero-arguments constructor.

Parameters:

className - Fully qualified class name to use

Returns:

new instance of class

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - if the class cannot be found

java.lang.IllegalAccessException - if the class or its constructor is not accessible

java.lang.InstantiationException - if this class represents an abstract class, an interface, an array class, a primitive type, or void

java.lang.InstantiationException - if this class has no zero-arguments constructor

applicationClass

public static java.lang.Class applicationClass(java.lang.String className)
                                        throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Return the Class object for the specified fully qualified class name, from this web application's class loader.

Parameters:

className - Fully qualified class name to be loaded

Returns:

Class object

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - if the class cannot be found

getClassLoader

public static java.lang.ClassLoader getClassLoader()

Return the current class loader.

Returns: