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Consider using class loaders

Posted by Bill Venners on April 11, 2000 at 6:52 PM

> In one of my applications, I am trying to create folders at runtime
> and copy some .class files into these folders. folders are
> dynamically created with dynamic names. I want to include
> these folders in the classpath at runtime. How do i achieve this?

You may want to use a class loader that knows how to load
from those folders. For info on class loaders, see:

http://www.artima.com/designtechniques/dynaext.html

bv