On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Donald Ball wrote:
> > Technically, because we use a custom class loader, in order to load a
> > class which is not in the system classpath, one must use
> >
> > this.getClassLoader().loadClass()
>
> Just out of curiousity, should this statement work across servlet engines?
> I'm using it in my RouterServlet class to load helper modules - A) because
> System.getClassLoader doesn't work on JDK-1.1.x for Linux and B) it
> automagically reloads my helper classes when they change. I've never been
> certain that it was a safe thing to do though.
Well, there's no guarantee that this will reload classes, even if the
current class is reloadable, but it's always safe -- that is, it should
always load a class and function at a basic level. It's certainly quite
valid wrt the Java language (probably better than Class.forName()).
In general, I believe you will get the same reloading w/in other servlet
engines (assuming they support class reloading) -- but I've never tried w/
another servlet engine, other than JRun.
Ed
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