Re: Re: New Reflection/Beans API

> > 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

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

thanks

Stephen