Hi,

In the spirit of "most maintainable" code, I'm applying a factory method
to instantiate objects using part of a class name that's passed to the
factory method, followed by reflection and newInstance(). The code goes
something like this:

public static Product loadProductDynamically(String requestedPF)
    throws UnsupportedProductFactoryException
{
    Product theProduct;
    try {
        theProduct=
            (Product) Class.forName(requestedPF + "Product").
            newInstance();
    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
        throw new UnsupportedProductFactoryException();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        throw new UnsupportedProductFactoryException();
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        throw new UnsupportedProductFactoryException();
    }
    return theProduct;
}

This works great if everything (this class, the *Product classes) is in
the "default" package. As soon as I put the code in another named
package, the forName() method above doesn't work. Obviously you have to
specify the package part of the class.

But, how can I get the package name in a static method like the one
above without hard-coding the package name anywhere in the class?
Ideally, this kind of code should work for any class in any package,
e.g., expecting that the "*Product" classes are in the same package.

Thanks in advance!