From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T10:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Hal Fulton wrote:

> Can you say this?
>
>   bar = new clazz();

Object bar;
try {
  bar = clazz.getConstructor(null).newInstance(null);
} catch(NoSuchMethodException e) { //catch the checked exceptions
 ...
} catch(InstantiationException e) { //or you could add these to the 
throws clause
 ...
} catch(IllegalAccessException e) { //or you could catch Exception
 ...
} catch(java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException e) {
 ...
}

>
> And does getClass return you Foo or Foo.class?

Foo.class

Devin