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Message: [QUOTE="Robert Klemme, post: 4219299"] I would stick with the forName() approach. If performance is critical then I would define an interface for the factory method and configure the name of a class which much implement this interface. Then you need forName() only once (for instantiating the factory instance) and can use new in factory methods (or do even more fancy things like caching etc.). Doing if else cascades is certainly the worst thing - not so much because of the performance but because of the deficiency that you need to touch the code every time you want to add a new class. With the other two approaches you do not have to do that. Kind regards robert [/QUOTE]