Re: New Reflection/Beans API

Stephen Colebourne wrote:

>>>However I have a question about the Class class. This class appears to
>>>require quite a lot of setting up to create an instance. Is there any
>>>factory method that I've missed to create instances of a Class?
>>>
>>I'm a bit puzzled here, since you can not "create"
>>Class instances. You can only look them up, either
>>via getClass() or Class.forName(), (Class cl = Foo.class;
>>is just syntactic sugar).
>>
> 
> Yes this is what I was driving at. Is there an easy factory method to create
> bytecodes equivalent to:
> Class cl = Foo.class


Currently the answer is no, but that's not to difficult, just call
Class.forName("Foo");



> Also, is there a convenient method to create a Type object from a Class
> object?


	new ObjectType(clazz.getName()); ?

Cheers
	Markus