Class.forName()方法有什么作用？

publicstatic Class forName(String className)

Returns the Class object associated withthe class or interface with the given string name. Invokingthis method is equivalent to:

Class.forName(className,true, currentLoader)

where currentLoader denotes the definingclass loader of the current class.

For example, thefollowing code fragment returns the runtime Class descriptor for theclass named java.lang.Thread:

Class t =Class.forName("java.lang.Thread")

A call to forName("X") causes theclass named X to beinitialized.

Parameters:

className - the fully qualifiedname of the desired class.

Returns:

the Class object for the classwith the specified name.

从官方给出的API文档中可以看出:

Class.forName(className)实际上是调用Class.forName(className,true, this.getClass().getClassLoader())。第二个参数，是指Class被loading后是不是必须被初始化。可以看出，使 用Class.forName（className）加载类时则已初始化。

所以Class.forName(className)可以简单的理解为：获得字符串参数中指定的类，并初始化该类。