Dynamically load a Class and invoke a method in Java

Question

Lets say i want to dynamically load a class in java and call it's start() (has no params) method:

Class<?> c = Class.forName("AbuseMe");
c.getMethod("start").invoke(c.newInstance());

Would this be a good/safe way to do it?

Answer 1

Looks good to me.

If you're doing a lot of reflection-related code you might look at Apache Beanutils or Apache OGNL or something similar.