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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 1.1 2004/12/23 22:38:42 mark 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
+ * @version 2.0.1 (sax2r2)
+ */
+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;
+ if (classLoader == null) {
+ driverClass = Class.forName(className);
+ } else {
+ driverClass = classLoader.loadClass(className);
+ }
+ return driverClass.newInstance();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Figure out which ClassLoader to use. For JDK 1.2 and later use
+ * the context ClassLoader.
+ */
+ static ClassLoader getClassLoader ()
+ {
+ Method m = null;
+
+ try {
+ m = Thread.class.getMethod("getContextClassLoader", null);
+ } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
+ // Assume that we are running JDK 1.1, use the current ClassLoader
+ return NewInstance.class.getClassLoader();
+ }
+
+ try {
+ return (ClassLoader) m.invoke(Thread.currentThread(), null);
+ } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+ // assert(false)
+ throw new UnknownError(e.getMessage());
+ } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+ // assert(e.getTargetException() instanceof SecurityException)
+ throw new UnknownError(e.getMessage());
+ }
+ }
+}