From bec6abe894ca14c42017dfc8c30033e408a2d427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Soares <bsoares@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:32:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-3850 using reflection for SimpleHttpFileServerFactory

---
 build.gradle |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 41a972b..56140e6 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -2947,7 +2947,13 @@ task jalviewjsServer {
   def htmlFile = "${jalviewDirAbsolutePath}/${filename}"
   doLast {
 
-    SimpleHttpFileServerFactory factory = new SimpleHttpFileServerFactory()
+    def factory
+    try {
+      def class = Class.forName("SimpleHttpFileServerFactory")
+      factory = class.newInstance()
+    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+      throw new GradleException("Unable to create SimpleHttpFileServerFactory")
+    }
     def port = Integer.valueOf(jalviewjs_server_port)
     def start = port
     def running = false
-- 
1.7.10.2