Inner class instantiation

[Sunil.Mishra@xxxxxx (Mishra, Sunil)]

You can do that... use "$" not "." for the InnerName... "." will try to look
in the subdirectory...

try Class.forName("com.Foo.Outer$Inner");


Sunil Mishra
Goldman Sachs,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nick Rothwell [SMTP:NRothwell@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:16 AM
> To:	'Advanced Java at Berkeley'
> Subject:	Inner class instantiation
> 
> 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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