Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 00:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 00:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="32511"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185r6zDOdAxaNPwJWdhaEkWoZs3btHKyQI=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OffTZmdYP3lXL38fTxaKD5bpkWo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29503 On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:14:01 +0000, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > That's the point. In your case there was no need for isolation, and > there wasn't really a point in creating this MAClassLoader at all. > Merely loading the starting class could have been done with > Class.forName() thus without any custom classloader. Essentially, what I > had before the requirement for multiple apps per VM came up. > I spent a few minutes trying to remember why I extended ClassLoader at all: the exact reason that now escapes me but I'm fairly sure that I was unable to load of the class via Class.forName(), probably because the classes I wanted to load and run are never explicitly instantiated within the outermost program, which IIRC was written in 2008, so that must have been Java 5 - it was certainly during the pre-Generics era. I don't usually write or extend library code unless I have to! Does this make any sort of sense? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |