Inner class instantiation

[NRothwell@xxxxxxxxxxx (Nick Rothwell)]

Is there any reason why an inner class cannot be instantiated using
Class.forName(name).newInstance()? The inner class is static (so it doesn't
need an enclosing instance's context) and it is public, as is its enclosing
class. With something like

package com.Foo;

public class Outer
{
	public static class Inner { .... };
}

I should be able to instantiate a "com.Foo.Outer.Inner" but I'm getting
ClassNotFoundError. The Java spec. suggests that this is the right naming
convention (dotted separator between class names) but it's ambiguous with
the package structuring, so maybe that's the problem?

(As to why I'm doing this: it's in an internal testset, and I really want
one file and class per test.)


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