Surefire and ClassLoading with URLS SystemClassLoader

[Ryan Eccles <re...@oculusinfo.com>]

I've noticed a lot of discussion on ClassLoading with respect to 
resources, but little on loading classes themselves. Of the following 
tests, only the test useObjectClassLoader() works in surefire. In normal 
TestNG  both tests will pass. I've noticed a test using URLClassloader 
(ie plugin system loading jars) also fails with the same problem. Is 
there a different URL required for system classloader when running 
surefire?, or is there a configuration setting I need to get surefire to 
treat the URLs as it does at the command line? Thanks.

    @Test
    public void useObjectClassLoader() throws ClassNotFoundException {

        Class type = getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass(
                "com.oculus.test.TestObject");
          // works
        Assert.assertEquals(type, TestObject.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void useSystemClassLoader() throws ClassNotFoundException {

        // thows exeception here
        Class type = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().loadClass(
                "com.oculus.test.TestObject");

        Assert.assertEquals(type, TestObject.class);
    }


Oh and "TestObject" is in the same package as the tests. Here is the 
exception:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: TestObject
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at com.oculus.test.Runner.useSystemClassLoader(Runner.java:20)



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