problem with forehead

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Bob,

Cocoon is using Forehead to bootstrap its services. We found a weird 
problem related to JDK 1.3.1 which is probably a JDK bug that was fixed 
on 1.4.1.

This is related to the fact that the entry point class we call extends 
another class that exposes a main() method. It seems that Forehead calls 
the right method, but JDK 1.3.1 invoques the method of the super class 
instead of the one of the extending class.

I found out that if I modify the Forehead.run() method like the following:

    public void run(String[] args)
       throws
           NoSuchMethodException,
           IllegalAccessException,
           InvocationTargetException
    {
        Class[] method_param_types = new Class[1];
        method_param_types[0] = args.getClass();
        Method main = 
this.entryClass.getDeclaredMethod("main",method_param_types);

        Object[] method_params = new Object[1];
        method_params[0] = args;
        Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader( this.entryLoader );

        main.invoke(null,method_params);
    }
the problem goes away.

I'm recompiling forehead with this patch to include in Cocoon, but I'd 
be happy to see this bug fixed in the main Forehead distribution.

Thanks.

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Stefano Mazzocchi                               <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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