Re: Instantiate an abstract class

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Instantiate an abstract class
Date	2011-04-05 19:42 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT), Rob McDonald
<rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>AFoo a = new (this.getClass());
>AFoo a = new (this).getClass();

Check out the notion of a static factory, a design pattern, also
Class.forName.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/classforname.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/factorymethod.html
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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Instantiate an abstract class Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 14:14 -0700
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-05 14:37 -0700
    Re: Instantiate an abstract class Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 14:49 -0700
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-04-05 17:48 -0400
    Re: Instantiate an abstract class Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 14:54 -0700
      Re: Instantiate an abstract class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-05 15:09 -0700
      Re: Instantiate an abstract class Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-06 12:43 -0400
        Re: Instantiate an abstract class "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-06 22:07 -0400
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-05 19:02 -0700
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-05 19:42 -0700
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2011-04-06 18:26 +0200
    Re: Instantiate an abstract class Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-06 12:49 -0400
      Re: Instantiate an abstract class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-06 10:09 -0700
      Re: Instantiate an abstract class Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2011-04-07 01:01 +0200
  Re: Instantiate an abstract class Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-04-06 12:41 -0700

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