Ever since I have heard that you can generate classes during runtime (from say, a URL I suppose) and can use java.lang.Reflect to fire methods based on String input, I was wondering how the process is done?
Alex Edwards 321 Posting Shark
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The Sun tutorial on Reflection is a pretty good place to start:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html
Keep in mind that using reflection to manipulate classes and methods is much slower than normal compile-time usage patterns (and the code is pretty long and unwieldy to boot) and should only be done when you need to work with classes or methods that are not present at compile time.
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