servlet object created by reflaction mechanism

[Anant Jagania]

Hi All,

Does servlet object created using java.lang.reflect.Constructor by container?

Regards,
Anant

[David O'Meara]

I wouldn't imagine so, Class.forName().newInstance() would do

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

Originally posted by David O'Meara:
I wouldn't imagine so, Class.forName().newInstance() would do

Hi Dave,
can you please more enlighten on your statement..

[Bear Bibeault]

Point is, while reflection is certainly used -- how else could a class be instantiated given its class name as a string? -- the exact mechanism is up to the container.

But, in order to create a new instance of a class using the default contructor, I couldn't imagine it doing anything other than what David posted.

[Anant Jagania]

okay... got it...

but container has to fire the init() method of the servlet. Does it mean that after creating an object of servlet container will fier the init() method on it, or again it would be a reflection mechanism to do so?

[Anant Jagania]

Thanks a lot guys.. got the point..

[D Rog]

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[ March 12, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]