## Copyright (C) 2012 Rik Wehbring
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Loadable Function} {@var{obj} =} java_new (@var{name})
## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {@var{obj} =} java_new (@var{name}, @var{arg1}, @dots{})
## Create a Java object of class @var{name}, by calling the class constructor
## with the arguments @var{arg1}, @dots{}
## 
## @example
## @group
##   x = java_new ("java.lang.StringBuffer")
##   x = java_new ("java.lang.StringBuffer", "Initial string")
## @end group
## @end example
## 
## @seealso{javaObject, javaMethod}
## @end deftypefn

function retval = java_new (varargin)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "java_new is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use javaObject instead");
  endif

  if (nargin < 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  retval = javaObject (varargin{:});

endfunction