FW: JDK 1.4.2 and class loading

[Danny Angus <da...@apache.org>]

I wonder if any tomcat guys have any insight they could share with us...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
> Sent: 01 August 2003 20:02
> To: James-Dev Mailing List
> Cc: Ted Neward; Jeroen Frijters
> Subject: JDK 1.4.2 and class loading
>
>
> Apparently, there has been a subtle change in JDK 1.4.2.  Either
> intentional
> or accidental, but the URL:
>
>   file://path/jarfile.jar
>
> does not appear to work under JDK 1.4.2, at least on Windows (the platform
> where this was noticed and tested today).  Instead, the following URL does
> work:
>
>   jar:file:path/jarfile.jar!/
>
> Which means that the code in o.a.j.transport.Loader would change:
>
>  - jarlist.add(new URL("file://"   + baseDirectory + "/SAR-INF/lib/" +
> flist[i]       ));
>  + jarlist.add(new URL("jar:file:" + baseDirectory + "/SAR-INF/lib/" +
> flist[i] + "!/"));
>
> This behavior is noted at
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=26&thread=408858&tstart
> =0&trange=
> 15.  Does anyone have any additional information on this issue?  I'm not
> spotting anything in the docs, release notes or javadocs.
>
> Two related questions.  Does anyone have any thoughts on the use of
>
>    new URLClassLoader(URL[])    vs     URLClassLoader.newInstance(URL[])
>
> Most examples use the latter form.  There are is a code difference related
> to package security and exported packages.  The current Java v1.4.2
> documentation
> (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/extensions/spec.html) don't go
> into it, but there is some information on exported packages in a
> cached copy
> of some docs from an older beta
> (http://kavosh.irost.net/books/jdk1.2beta3/docs/guide/extensions/s
pec.html).
This probably doesn't effect our use AT THE MOMENT, but I'm surprised to see
the the operations aren't synonyms.

Also, we've ran into some cases where:

   classLoader.loadClass(className);

fails, whereas:

   Class.forName(className, true, classLoader)

works.  The best analysis I have found on the subject so far is Ted Neward's
paper at http://www.javageeks.com/Papers/ClassForName/index.html, but he
doesn't really go too far into the details of WHY the latter behaves
differently, other than acknowledging that it does.

	--- Noel


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