Can anyone point me a good resource or explain me about the concept behind Class Loaders? I found the following resource on class loaders http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/5586 but still no help. The following questions may look silly but trying to answer them always confuses me. Why do developers write Custom class loaders, why not invoke a...
Does anyone know how to use Java for Strong code mobility? Have you ever done it before? Here's what I try to achieve. Suppose we have 2 separate Java applications that communicate over network. App A and App B. App A has a class x instantiated as an object, and has been using it. App B has no prior knowledge of this class x. App A n...
I am working on a plugin system where plugin modules are loaded like this: def load_plugins(): plugins=glob.glob("plugins/*.py") instances=[] for p in plugins: try: name=p.split("/")[-1] name=name.split(".py")[0] log.debug("Possible plugin: %s", name) f, file, desc=imp.find_module(name...
Is it possible to load a class in Java and 'fake' the package name/canonical name of a class? I tried doing this, the obvious way, but I get a "class name doesn't match" message in a ClassDefNotFoundException. The reason I'm doing this is I'm trying to load an API that was written in the default package so that I can use it directl...
Hi, I'm writing my master thesis, which deals with AOP in .NET, among other things, and I mention the lack of support for replacing classes at load time as an important factor in the fact that there are currently no .NET AOP frameworks that perform true dynamic weaving -- not without imposing the requirement that woven classes must exte...