Github user jmetertea commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/431 According to https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html It should be replaced by ` clazz.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance()` But for generalizing, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53257073/java-9-replace-class-newinstance
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