• an atomic classname, e.g. 'java.lang.String'
• or an atomic descriptor, e.g. '[I' or 'Ljava.lang.String;'
• or a suitable type, i.e. any class(_,_) or array(_), e.g. class([java,util],['Date'])

If X is an object (non-array) type or descriptor and Params is a list of values or references, then V is the result of an invocation of that type's most specifically-typed constructor to whose respective formal parameters the actual Params are assignable (and assigned).

If X is an array type or descriptor and Params is a list of values or references, each of which is (independently) assignable to the array element type, then V is a new array of as many elements as Params has members, initialised with the respective members of Params.

If X is an array type or descriptor and Params is a non-negative integer N, then V is a new array of that type, with N elements, each initialised to Java's appropriate default value for the type.

If V is literally {Term} then we attempt to convert a new org.jpl7.Term instance to a corresponding term; this is of little obvious use here, but is consistent with jpl_call/4 and jpl_get/3.