RE: Declaring Java classes and methods

["Kendall Coolidge" <Kendall.Coolidge@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can instantiate a Class by calling
Class.forName(aStringContainingAClassName).newInstance());

I believe, though I haven't exactly tried it, you could then use
Reflection to determine what methods are available.

I used this technique in a Java-based menu system where the class names
were stored in a Properties file.

Kendall

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:00 PM
To: 'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'
Subject: Declaring Java classes and methods

Does anyone know why the parameters for class and method name are
constants?  Is there anything in the compiler that would preclude the
ability to use variable names, just like we can with EXTPGM?  Obviously
that wouldn't work with bound procedures, but couldn't Java calls get
away with it?

 

Just wondering.

 

Joe

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