Class.forName() throws ClassNotFoundException

Question

A Thinking in Java program is as follows:

package typeinfo;
import static util.Print.*;

class Candy {
 static { print(\"Loading Candy\"); }
}

class Gum {
          


        

Answer 1

Your classes are in the package typeinfo, so their fully-qualified names are typeinfo.Gum, typeinfo.Candy and typeinfo.Cookie. Class.forName() only accepts fully-qualified names:

Parameters:

className - the fully qualified name of the desired class.

Change your code to:

try {
  Class.forName("typeinfo.Gum");
} catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
  print("Couldn't find Gum");
}