Initialize a new object from class in Enum

Question

I have an Enum called Plugins:

public enum Plugins {

    ROTATING_LINE (plugin.rotatingline.RotatingLine.class),
    SNOW_SYSTEM (plugin.snow.SnowSystem.cla         


        

Answer 1

There is a conflict in your second code snippet which confuses me a bit... the variable plugins is used both for enum constants and as a list it appears. So I am assuming this, but you should post code snippets which actually work in future.

So, yes, there is a way to do what you want:

for (Plugins plugins : Plugins.values()) {
    Class c = plugins.getClassObject();
    pluginsList.add(c.getConstructor(Integer.TYPE, Integer.TYPE).newInstance(400, 400));
}

Also I recommend you looking at Service Loader, which is a really cool tool to dynamically load services from the classpath.