Well, that is more or less what I already have done, or atleast tried to do.
The example above is greatly simplified, because I can't express the _real_
issue in a easy way, and I though there was an easy solution that would work
on the real issue aswell.
But I will try to describe the real issue (but still simpified):

I have a webserver (apache & tomcat) that has different action managers (for
login, sendMessage etc.), that all get loaded dynamically (the servlet reads
a config file, and loads the class files using a custom class loader) so I
easily can change some functionallity or add a new function withouth
reloading the webapplication. Now, I don't want to instantiate these action
managers, but instead call their static methods.

For instance, when I load the action managers, I want to set a connection
pool (a static class variable in the action manager). This is how I do it
now:

...
String storageClass = st.nextToken().trim();
Class<ActionManager> sam = loader.forceLoadClass(storageClass);
java.lang.reflect.Method setConnectionPool =
sam.getMethod("setConnectionPool", community.storage.ConnectionPool.class);
setConnectionPool.invoke(null, communityManager.getConnectionPool());

But I really would like to do something like this:

...
String storageClass = st.nextToken().trim();
(*??*) sam = loader.forceLoadClass(storageClass);
sam.setConnectionPool(communityManager.getConnectionPool());

I just though that there was something I could replace (*??*) with to get it
to work. Apperently, Class<ActionManager> doesn't work, even though the
class ActionManager has a static method setConnectionPool that takes a
ConnectionPool object).

/Jimi

The Java equivalent to method C's method parameters is the delegate.
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A delegate reference can be an interface with just one method in it, a
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