org.displaytag.util
Class ReflectHelper

java.lang.Object
  org.displaytag.util.ReflectHelper

public final class ReflectHelper
extends java.lang.Object

Utility method for reflection.

Version:

$Revision: 1081 $ ($Author: fgiust $)

Author:

Fabrizio Giustina

Method Summary

static java.lang.Class

classForName(java.lang.String className) Tries to load a class with more classloaders.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

classForName

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

Tries to load a class with more classloaders. Can be useful in J2EE applications if jar is loaded from a different classloader than user classes. If class is not found using the standard classloader, tries whit the thread classloader.

Parameters:

className - class name

Returns:

Class loaded class

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - if none of the ClassLoaders is able to found the reuested class