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| Subject: | Re: Reflection: Instantiate All Classes in a Package? |
| Poster: | Oliver Wong |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:26:11 -0400 |
| Related Postings: | 1 2 3 4 5 |
"Joshua Cranmer" wrote in message
news:lzXMh.493$Ht2.302@trnddc06...
> Jason Cavett wrote:
>> I was wondering...
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>> Is it possible, by using Java reflection, to instantiate all classes
>> existing in a package without knowing the names of those classes.
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> Using Java reflection, the answer is NO. For more information, check the
> message thread "Getting a list of classes in a package"; there is a nice
> long discussion on class/package/reflection.
Actually, the answer turned out to be "yes" (though I can't find the
thread where we concluded this), but you would probably never want to
instantiate all the classes existing in a package anyway, because there
are an infinite number of such classes.
OP, instead of instantiating all classes in a package, how about
instantiating all classes located within a specific directory on the local
harddrive?
- Oliver
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