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Similar Problem - Please Help!!

Posted by Ankur Lahoti on September 03, 2000 at 8:02 AM

Dear Sir,
I am also trying to do a similar thing, that is trying to load class
files from jar files dynamically. Could you please elaborate a little on how are
are you getting to load a class from URLClassLoader. I am not clear how do you get
a newInstance of a URLClassLoader and then call findClass.
Thanking you in advance.
Sincerely,
Ankur
> I am trying to dynamically load classes from JAR files using
> the JDK 1.2 class URLClassLoader in an Applet without adding
> the policy to create class loaders. This doesn't quite seem
> like it should be possible, but I am able to do so by "getting"
> a URLClassLoader by calling the static method:
> URLClassLoader.newInstance(URL[] urls, ClassLoader parent). My
> first question is, how is this working without setting a policy?

> Next, I am having a slight performance problem with this
> technique. I was hoping that by specifying a URL for a JAR file,
> that loading my first class from the JAR file would also load
> the other classes from the JAR file. I think I see why that was
> not done, but the resulting problem is that when my class is
> getting resolved, the other dependent classes in the JAR file
> must be loaded. This is resulting in hits back to the web server
> for each class to see if each can be found in the CLASSPATH.
> This seems to be eating up much of the efficiency I was hoping
> to obtain by putting the classes in a JAR file to begin with. Do
> you see a way around this?

> Thanks in advance for any help.

> -- Kevin Welker