Tidy internals, use cls.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();

ebean-api/src/main/java/io/ebean/event/ClassUtil.java

@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ class ClassUtil {
    * Return a new instance of the class using the default constructor.
    */
   static Object newInstance(String className) {
-
     try {
       Class<?> cls = forName(className);
-      return cls.newInstance();
+      return cls.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
     } catch (Exception e) {
       String msg = "Error constructing " + className;
       throw new IllegalArgumentException(msg, e);
@@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ class ClassUtil {
     return new ClassLoadContext().forName(name);
   }
 
-
   /**
    * Helper to wrap the context and caller classLoaders (to use/try both).
    */
@@ -48,7 +46,6 @@ class ClassUtil {
     }
 
     public Class<?> forName(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
-
       try {
         return Class.forName(name, true, contextLoader);
       } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
@@ -59,7 +56,6 @@ class ClassUtil {
         }
       }
     }
-
   }
 }
 

ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/core/bootup/BootupClasses.java

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ public class BootupClasses implements Predicate<Class<?>> {
   public void runServerConfigStartup(DatabaseConfig config) {
     for (Class<?> cls : serverConfigStartupCandidates) {
       try {
-        ServerConfigStartup newInstance = (ServerConfigStartup) cls.newInstance();
+        ServerConfigStartup newInstance = (ServerConfigStartup) cls.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
         newInstance.onStart(config);
       } catch (Exception e) {
         // assume that the desired behavior is to fail - add your own try catch if needed

ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/deploy/BeanDescriptorElementEmbedded.java

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class BeanDescriptorElementEmbedded<T> extends BeanDescriptorElement<T> {
   BeanDescriptorElementEmbedded(BeanDescriptorMap owner, DeployBeanDescriptor<T> deploy, ElementHelp elementHelp) {
     super(owner, deploy, elementHelp);
     try {
-      this.prototype = (EntityBean) beanType.newInstance();
+      this.prototype = (EntityBean) beanType.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
     } catch (Exception e) {
       throw new IllegalStateException("Unable to create entity bean prototype for "+beanType);
     }