/**
* Creates a new class instance. Logs errors along the way. Classes are loaded
* using the Ehcache standard classloader.
*
* @param className a fully qualified class name
* @return null if the instance cannot be loaded
*/
public static Object createNewInstance(String className) throws CacheException {
Class clazz;
Object newInstance;
try {
clazz = Class.forName(className, true, getStandardClassLoader());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
//try fallback
try {
clazz = Class.forName(className, true, getFallbackClassLoader());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
throw new CacheException("Unable to load class " + className +
". Initial cause was " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
try {
newInstance = clazz.newInstance();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
throw new CacheException("Unable to load class " + className +
". Initial cause was " + e.getMessage(), e);
} catch (InstantiationException e) {
throw new CacheException("Unable to load class " + className +
". Initial cause was " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
return newInstance;
}
/**
* Gets the ClassLoader that all classes in ehcache, and extensions,
* should use for classloading. All ClassLoading in Ehcache should use this
* one. This is the only thing that seems to work for all of the class
* loading situations found in the wild.
* @return the thread context class loader.
*/
public static ClassLoader getStandardClassLoader() {
return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
}
/**
* Gets a fallback ClassLoader that all classes in ehcache, and
* extensions, should use for classloading. This is used if the
* context class loader does not work.
* @return the ClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader(); */
public static ClassLoader getFallbackClassLoader() {
return ClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader();
}