Can u explain this code..

[Sundar Raja]

// Making an Object of the class className
Class classObj = Class.forNam(className);
Class[] loadParametersTypes = new Class[1];
loadParametersTypes[0] = Class.forName("java.lang.String");
// Getting the 'Method' using Reflection API
Method loadMethod = classObj.getMethod("load",
loadParametersTypes);
Object[] loadParameters = new Object[1];
loadParameters[0] = (Object) new String(cacheName);
// Invoking the required method
loadMethod.invoke(null, loadParameters);

[Ilja Preuss]

A look at the reflection tutorial should help: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/

[Michael Ernest]

This code fragment demonstrates how Reflection can be used to load a class and invoke one of its methods by indirect means.
To do this, one has to get object references to the essential components -- a Class object that represents the class containing the method, a reference to the method that allows us to see it as an object, and a list of references to the parameter types that help identify the method. Remember that in Java a method is uniquely identified by the number, order, and type of its parameters.
The code that's given is a fragment, but there's still something missing that would make it appear workable; we can't invoke a method without an instance, either directly or indirectly. The only exceptions to this rule are methods declared static.
So somewhere in this piece I expect to see a call newInstance() on the initial class' Class reference.
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Michael Ernest, co-author of: The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide

[Ilja Preuss]

The code that's given is a fragment, but there's still something missing that would make it appear workable; we can't invoke a method without an instance, either directly or indirectly. The only exceptions to this rule are methods declared static.
So somewhere in this piece I expect to see a call newInstance() on the initial class' Class reference.

Obviously the load-Method invoked is a static method - therefore the null-Parameter in invoke.
[This message has been edited by Ilja Preuss (edited September 14, 2001).]

[Roseanne Zhang]

The code is not compilable. There is typo in it. I think that copy/paste from a working program is a more responsible way to do it.
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[This message has been edited by Roseanne Zhang (edited September 15, 2001).]