Re: Ability to reload class files

1999-05-11 Thread Robb Shecter
Steve Byrne wrote: > Apache's mod_jserv does this, and the code is small enough to be easily > comprehensible. > I just recently looked over this code, and it is interesting, but I don't think it quite does what's described: As far as I understand it: - They have a ClassLoader implementation t

Re: Ability to reload class files

1999-05-10 Thread Steve Byrne
Ken McNeil writes: > > What I would like to know is this: how difficult > > would it be to reload the > > definition of a class if objects of the class had > > already been > > instantiated, then destroyed and garbage-collected? > > > java.lang.ClassLoader caches Class objects so that >

Re: Ability to reload class files

1999-05-10 Thread Ken McNeil
> What I would like to know is this: how difficult > would it be to reload the > definition of a class if objects of the class had > already been > instantiated, then destroyed and garbage-collected? > java.lang.ClassLoader caches Class objects so that > class files don't have > to be loaded or

Ability to reload class files

1999-05-10 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, Please excuse me for the lack of knowledge obvious in this question; I haven't ever worked with the JVM source. Also, I suppose this applies to all JVMs, but I'm interested in the Linux implementation, because, really, what else is there? :) What I would like to know is this: how difficult