Cookie that should be provided by all nodes that are able
to create a "instance".
Generally this is used to register objects declaratively in XML layers.
author: Jaroslav Tulach
The type that the instance is expected to be assignable to.
Can be used to test whether the instance is of an appropriate
class without actually creating it.
the type (or perhaps some interesting supertype) of the instance exception: IOException - if metadata about the instance could not be read, etc. exception: ClassNotFoundException - if the instance type could not be loaded
The name of
InstanceCookie.instanceClass .
Should be the same as instanceClass().getName()
but may be able to avoid actually loading the class.
the instance class name