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Hi everyone,
I am facing a problem. I have an XML which contains tags
like JPanel,JTextField,JButton with attributes for creating UI screen. I am reading this XML file and creating objects using reflection and storing in an Object array. Now when I want to access the methods of JBtton,JTextField... I need to downcast it dynamically into its appropriate class. This is possible using instanceof operator. I need to avoid using if-else statements as I need to handle many swing components. Can I somehow dynamically downcast it, pls help.
Thnx in advance for the help
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Simon
 
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Greetings Simon,
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