making class accessible from class path in dynamic class loading

Question

I have a project created in Eclipse, and I defined an interface and a class for dynamic class loading, the class is in the project directory, so I have this code in my project:

if (handlerClassName != null) 
    {
         TypeHandler typeHandler = null;
         try {
             typeHandler = (TypeHandler) 
            (Class.forName(handlerClassName).newInstance());

but I get this exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: "handlerClassName"

what should I do to make the JVM recognize the class "handlerClassName" in my project?

thanks

Answer 1

Use the full qualified classname including the entire package, e.g. java.lang.String instead of the short name like string. If it is actually not in a package, then fix it so that it's in a package. Packageless classes are namely invisible for classes in a package.