Hello -
I originally posted this on comp.lang.java.programmer, but the responses
I got seem to indicate that the problem has more to do with this being a
servlet, so I repost it here. (I'm brand new to this list. I tried
searching the archives, but the searcher just hung. Is there an FAQ
somewhere?)
I am writing a servlet that acts as a dispatcher between applets and
classes on the server whose methods those applets need to call. (These
classes on the server should never get downloaded to the client for
security reasons.) All of these classes on the server extend the same
class, Solver. Solver has the method, checkAttempt(). Any subclass of
Solver is meant to override this method.
My servlet uses a URLClassLoader to load the appropriate class based on
a string passed to it from the applet. I am able to get the class
loaded, but when I try to cast it to Solver, so I can call it's
checkAttempt() method, I get a ClassCastException. Here is how I do the
class loading:
private Solver getSolver(String solverName) {
Class solverClass;
Solver theSolver = null;
try {
log("about to load class... "+solverName);
solverClass = loader.loadClass(solverName);
log("loaded class: "+solverClass);
log("parent:"+solverClass.getSuperclass());
log("about to instantiate...");
Object theInstance = solverClass.newInstance();
log("instantiated");
if(theInstance instanceof Solver ) {
log("about to cast as Solver...");
theSolver = (Solver)(theInstance);
log("cast solver:"+theSolver);
} else {
log("couldn't cast, not a Solver!");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
log(""+e);
}
return theSolver;
}
"loader" is a URLClassLoader prepared with the appropriate codebase upon
initilization of the servlet. A check of the logs shows that the class I'm
trying to instantiate has Solver as a Superclass, but then "theInstance"
somehow does not end up being an actual instance of Solver, and thus not
castable to Solver. How can this be? What am I doing wrong?
---
John Brecht
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
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