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    copied!<p>Using the <code>[[[Ljava.lang.String;</code> notation is the standard way of representing array class names. </p> <p>The XMLEncoder and XMLDecoder use standard Java functionality to write and read arrays:</p> <pre><code>String[][][] foo = new String[3][4][5]; foo[0][0][0] = "a"; foo[2][3][4] = "z"; XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(System.out); encoder.writeObject(foo); encoder.flush(); encoder.close(); </code></pre> <p>yields the following result:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;java version="1.6.0_22" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"&gt; &lt;array class="[[Ljava.lang.String;" length="3"&gt; &lt;void index="0"&gt; &lt;array class="[Ljava.lang.String;" length="4"&gt; &lt;void index="0"&gt; &lt;array class="java.lang.String" length="5"&gt; &lt;void index="0"&gt; &lt;string&gt;a&lt;/string&gt; ... </code></pre> <p>I currently don't see any problem in using Class.forName() with a self-built class name (e.g. prepending the <code>[L</code>, since it's also used by the Java standard classes in the same way. </p> <pre><code>Class arrayClass = Class.forName("[L" + "java.lang.String" + ";"); </code></pre> <p>And as the <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#forName%28java.lang.String,%20boolean,%20java.lang.ClassLoader%29" rel="nofollow">JavaDoc for Class.forName</a> describes, the class is loaded but not initialized, and you also don't need to create an instance for it.</p> <blockquote> <p>If <code>name</code> denotes an array class, the component type of the array class is loaded but not initialized.</p> </blockquote> <p>Your last remark about various blog posts where this would not work would be interesting to investigate.</p>
 

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