Hi justin, thanx for your quick response.... I've circumvented the problem by using the ClassLoader class instead of the forName method, this works fine ! Thanx anyway roland -->-----Original Message----- -->From: Justin Couch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -->Sent: woensdag 7 februari 2001 12:17 -->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -->Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Help !! :: Dynamically loading classes,using -->Class.forName(aStri ng) --> --> -->"Vissers, Roland" wrote: --> -->> In a local directory, say: /home/usr/fools/ I have created -->a ini.class file -->> which is to be loaded as a kind of initialization like -->file for fool.jar. -->> -->> When I Invoke the application from my local directory, -->e.g., java a -->> ini.class I got a classNotFoundException for the ini.class file. --> -->If the JAR file is located in the jre/lib/ext directory, the security -->manager does not permit it to access classes outside of that -->directory. -->Any extension API that lets you set things like factories will be -->effected by this. In order for the class in the jar to -->access the other -->class(es) they need to be in a jar in the extensions dir too. --> -->-- -->Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker -->http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer -->http://www.j3d.org/ J3D.org The Java 3D Community Site -->------------------------------------------------------------------- -->"Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. -->Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism -->processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with -->all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." --> - Greg Bear, Slant -->------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -->============================================================= -->============== -->To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and -->include in the body -->of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, -->send email to -->[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". --> =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".