Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static Object getClassFromXML() throws Exception { //create DOM object DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = docBuilder.parse(new File("property.xml")); //get the node name and get the class name NodeList nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName("className"); Node node = nodeList.item(0).getFirstChild(); String className = node.getNodeValue(); //return an object through the class name Class tempClass = Class.forName(className); Object object = tempClass.newInstance(); return object; } }