Plugin classloader using the "wrong" order of resolving classes

[Harald Kirsch]

Hi,

I am writing a plugin to communicate with the most recent version of 
Solr. I add the respective solrj-jar to the plugin as a library.

However, due to standard class resolution of the JVM, the parent 
ClassLoader is asked first. As a result, classes from the old solrj-jar 
which comes with Nutch 1.8 are loaded.

The solution would be a class loader which does not obey the default 
"ask parent first" protocol. Is there such a ClassLoader available for 
Nutch?

Would it be a viable workaround to just remove the old solrj from the 
lib directory?

Harald Kirsch