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Utility to essentially do Class forName and allow configurable Classloaders
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import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
/*
* Copyright 2005 Joe Walker
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
/**
* @author Joe Walker [joe at getahead dot ltd dot uk]
*/
public class Main {
/**
* Utility to essentially do Class forName and allow configurable
* Classloaders.
* <p>The initial implementation makes use of the context classloader for
* the current thread.
* @param className The class to create
* @return The class if it is safe or null otherwise.
* @throws ClassNotFoundException If <code>className</code> is not valid
*/
public static Class<?> classForName(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException
{
// Class.forName(className);
return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(className);
}
}
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