Allow invoking methods on an instance which is loaded by a different class loader

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Currently an IllegalArgumentException is thrown when an implementation of the ObjectFactory interface (from cucumber-java) creates an instance of a class that is loaded by another class loader:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils$1.call(Utils.java:34)
... 52 more

This happens in my case where I implemented an ObjectFactory that creates an instance in an OSGi context. The OSGi framework requires the class to be loaded by a bundle's class loader and as such the class loaded is different from the class loaded by the JavaBackend (which loads the class with the system classloader).

This issue can be solved by checking if the class loader of the target instance differs from the class loader of the method's declaring class. If so the method can be retrieved from the target instance's class instead and invoked in the same way. I also added 2 tests to validate the current behavior and new behavior.

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