Re: How to create an object of a given class NAME?

From:

"Karl Uppiano" <karl.uppiano@verizon.net>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:26:58 GMT

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"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
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in message <ewHbh.12275$gJ1.3489@trndny09>, Karl Uppiano
('karl.uppiano@verizon.net') wrote:

"Miguel Farah" <miguel@farah.cl> wrote in message
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I got the following piece of code:

   static private Idiom determineIdiom(Locale region) {
       if (region==null) region=DEFAULT_REGION;
       String language=region.getLanguage();

You could use reflection to avoid using hard-coded class names. Then to
support a new language, you would need to write a new class, but plug it
in using a resource bundle to map the language to the class name, e.g.,

Reflection is a very good way to accomplish plug-ins.

Having said that, a separate class for each language is a really bad way
to
do internationalisation. Internationalisation should be done through
resource bundles.

If the OP's "Idiom" embodies behavior, my design would probably implement it
as an inner class of ListResourceBundle. If Idiom is basically data, then
simple resource bundles are the way to go.