Question

How can I mention the path of a class as in following code?

Class cl=Class.forName("SomeClass");

This works well if the “SomeClass” is located in the same directory of the calling class. But how to check for a class from a different directory, I saw the syntax for that is like xxxx.yyyy.class, but could not make out what those ‘x’s and’y’s stand for. please help.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use the fully-qualified class name. For instance, to do this with the Java SE String class, which is in the java.lang package:

Class clazz = Class.forName("java.lang.String");