Github user FSchumacher 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()`
> see also
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53257073/java-9-replace-class-newinstance
Thanks for the info, I read the same article before I started and then made
such a mess :) I prepared a new pull request #435 and will close this one.---
