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Message:

getting custom class loader to be used throughout application/applet

Posted by T.R. Missner on May 02, 2000 at 4:24 PM

Hello,

I have written a custom class loader in using java 2.
In my custom class loader I override the findClass() method
in order to load classes from a jarConnection. All this is
working fine. My question is how can I get my custom class
loader to be used whenever another class is to be loaded. I
have used a small bootstrap class that creates my custom loader
and loads/invokes a main class. From there the main class creates other objects but it seems to use the primoridial class loader.

I have also had my main class create an instance of my custom class and load/instantiate a new class. Then the new class
creates another class using the new operator. I would expect
my custom class loader to be invoked but alas it seems that the
primordial class loader is used yet again.

I have read your column and book excerpt and can't figure out
why my custom class loader isn't be used 'automatically' after
I have used it to create parent classes. Could there be a scope
problem ( could the instance of my classloader be going out of scope ) I can't see how but have no other ideas.

The way I see it I should never get a ClassNotFoundException
without the findClass code I wrote being executed first ( assuming I loaded the application/class with my loader )

any ideas?





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