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Bug 346877

Summary:	Replace Class.forName with ClassLoader.loadClass
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Source Editing	Reporter:	David Carver <d_a_carver>
Component:	wst.xpath	Assignee:	Project Inbox <wst.xsl-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Jesper Moller <jesper>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description David Carver

2011-05-23 11:19:32 EDT

Class.forName can hold classes in memory, and in general is not very friendly with OSGI.   We should analyze the code, and make any necessary changes to replace Class.forName usage with ClassLoader.loadClass instead.

http://www.osgi.org/blog/2011/05/what-you-should-know-about-class.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2003-03/01-qa-0314-forname.html