[jdt-dev] Retrieving, instantiating an IType

[Liam Morley <lmorley@xxxxxxx>]

I'd like to go from a fully-qualified class name and retrieve an object 
of type IType. The class name could be any class within the classpath, 
or any Java class in any project. The class name is supplied as a 
string. What's the easiest way to get that? I was looking through the 
SearchEngine class, but I'm not sure what to supply for a progress 
monitor etc... I'm not looking to use this with the UI.

After retrieving an IType, I'd like to instantiate an object of that 
type. Should I go through the java reflection api, or is there some 
proper Eclipse way of doing this that I'm not aware of?

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Liam Morley
Computer Science Undergraduate
Worcester Polytechnic Institute