Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have basic knowledge of Java's
reflection API - therefore, this is not only a question of how,
it's a question of whether it's possible and whether I'm going
about a solution the best way.  We're doing some acceptance
testing of multiple, interrelated projects; each of these
projects retrieve data from a MongoDB store using an in-house
abstraction API. To facilitate this testing, each component
needs some pre-loaded data to be available in the database.  I'm
building a command-line tool to accept a DTO (pre-compiled class
binary), for loading of multiple instances using the morphia ORM
library. I would like each member of our team to be able to run
the generator passing in via cli their DTO (in jar or directory
form), and a file (csv or otherwise) for instantiating a desired
amount of records.  I have the class loading working fine with
URLClassLoader. Now I'm trying to instantiate an instance of
this class using data from a file.  Is this possible? Would
serialized objects be a be