Implicity usage of Java Custom class loaders?
I've written some customer class loader that load some classes from a certain directory (that i开发者_如何转开发s not in the classpath), say:
class FileSystemClassLoader extends Classloader{
// implementation details
}
I have some directory say /home/mhewedy/classes/
that is not in the classpath, this directory contains some classes that I use the previous classlaoder to load.
how to use this classloader from the my code to load classes "simplicity" without writing : such code:
Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(new FileSystemClassLoader());
// some code here ...
ClassLoader contextCL = Thread.currentThread().getcontextClassLoader();
Update to respond to OP edits:
When the JVM loads a class, it will use the classloader that loaded the "current" class (per JVM spec). So if you're in method Foo.main()
, which was loaded with your custom classloader, and you want to create an instance of Bar
, also loaded via that classloader, you don't have to do anything special.
However, if your current method is Baz.main()
, and it was loaded via the system classpath (specified with -cp
on the command line), then you have to explicitly load that class via the classloader. There's no way around this. The "context classloader" is meant for application code, to load resources; the JVM ignores it.
In almost all cases, you're better off constructing a classpath that includes your special classes.
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