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/*L
 * Copyright Oracle inc, SAIC-F
 *
 * Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License.
 * See http://ncip.github.com/cadsr-util/LICENSE.txt for details.
 */

package gov.nih.nci.ncicb.cadsr.common.util;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public class ObjectFactory {

    protected static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ObjectFactory.class.getName());

    public ObjectFactory() {
    }

    public static Object createObect(String className) throws Exception {
        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
            log.debug("Instatiating Object = " + className);
        Class theClass = forName(new ObjectFactory().getClass(), className);
        return theClass.newInstance();

    }

    /**
     * Load a class for the specified name and scope.
     * In the cases when the active ClassLoader is null, we use
     *  Class.forName(), otherwise ClassLoader.loadClass() is used
     */
    public static Class forName(Class scope, String className) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        ClassLoader loader = null;

        try {
            loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        } // end try
        catch (Exception e) {
            loader = scope.getClassLoader();
        } // end catch

        return (loader != null) ? loader.loadClass(className) : Class.forName(className);
    } // end forName  
}