<div dir="ltr"><div>Well, I could find only a few places where the Class.forName() with the array parameter is needed. <br>Probably the tip number 6 - Centralize would help with that.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/16 Mark Proctor <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org" target="_blank">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Some things cause other problems:<div><i style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(237,236,232)">&quot;Class.forName is Evil</i><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(237,236,232)"> - Class.forName will pin classes in memory forever (almost, but long enough to cause problems). If you&#39;re forced to do dynamic class loading use ClassLoader.loadClass instead. All variations of the Class.forName suffer from the same problem. See </span><a href="http://blog.bjhargrave.com/2007/09/classforname-caches-defined-class-in.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,67,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(237,236,232)" target="_blank">BJ Hargrave&#39;s blog about this</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(237,236,232)">.&quot;</span></div>
<div><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">There is a bug in JDK which means that serialisation will not work with String[] when using loadClass, and Class.forName must be used:</span></font></div>
<div><a href="http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149" target="_blank">http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149</a></div><div><br></div><div>We hit this, and had to move all our stuff to Class.forName.</div><div>
<font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Mark</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On 16 Apr 2013, at 18:51, Cristiano Gavião &lt;<a href="mailto:cvgaviao@gmail.com" target="_blank">cvgaviao@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">Would like to share this excellent article with Drools and JBPM <br>developers...<br><br><a href="http://blog.osgi.org/2011/05/what-you-should-know-about-class.html" target="_blank">http://blog.osgi.org/2011/05/what-you-should-know-about-class.html</a><br>
<br>cheers,<br><br>Cristiano<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>rules-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank">rules-dev@lists.jboss.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev" target="_blank">https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev</a><br>
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