What is the diff between between Class.forname(""); and new Foo();

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Aug 28th, 2006
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chris

Aug 28th, 2006

Class.forName(className) returns a "Class" object for the class named "className" or throws a ClassNotFoundException if "className" cannot be found. A call to new Foo() will return a new instance of the class "Foo".

ambadas

Sep 8th, 2006

Class.forname("xxxx") will returns the xxxx object after the xxxx class is loaded otherwise it will throw the exception. But new Foo() will creates the object of Foo() when the if there is Foo class is available means it doesn't require the Foo class to be loaded

VTR Ravi Kumar

Sep 21st, 2006

If the class is not found in Class.forname("") then only a runtime exception is raised. But if foo() is not found a compile time exception occurs as well...