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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Gregorie, post: 4219459"] Is there actually that much difference? It strikes me that both 'new' and Class.forName() are doing essentially the same, namely searching the class path for the required class, loading it into the JVM and instantiating an object from it. I also wonder if 'new' might not be implemented as a wrapper for Class.forName(). It certainly could be done that way: both return a class object if they are successful and throw an exception if the class can't be found. [/QUOTE]