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/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.annotations.common.util;

/**
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 */
public final class ReflectHelper {

	/**
	 * Disallow instantiation of ReflectHelper.
	 */
	private ReflectHelper() {
	}

	/**
	 * Perform resolution of a class name.
	 * 
	 * Here we first check the context classloader, if one, before delegating to
	 * {@link Class#forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader)} using the caller's classloader
	 *
	 * @param name The class name
	 * @param caller The class from which this call originated (in order to access that class's loader).
	 * @return The class reference.
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException From {@link Class#forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader)}.
	 *
	 * @deprecated Deprecated in favor of {@link org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.ClassLoaderDelegate}
	 */
	@Deprecated
	public static Class classForName(String name, Class caller) throws ClassNotFoundException {
		try {
			ClassLoader contextClassLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
			if ( contextClassLoader != null ) {
				return contextClassLoader.loadClass( name );
			}
		}
		catch ( Throwable ignore ) {
		}
		return Class.forName( name, true, caller.getClassLoader() );
	}
}