com.marringtons.file
Class ClassCache

java.lang.Object
  com.marringtons.file.ClassCache

public class ClassCache

extends Object

This is a specialist classloader used by the Adept servlet system to load classes from more sources than those provided my the standard class loader. It searches the datapath as well as the classpath. In addition any entry on either jar, zip or directory can have a META-INF directory with a PATH-BASE.TXT file entry. Each line in this file represents a root path. So, of PATH-BASE.TXT has an item /com/marringtons, a class can be found as "com.marringtons.myClass" or just "myClass".

Author:

Paul Marrington

See Also:

Path

Method Summary

static Class

forName(String name) Used to load a class from the cache or from the class/datapath if not already in use.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

forName

public static Class forName(String name)
                     throws ClassNotFoundException

Used to load a class from the cache or from the class/datapath if not already in use.

Parameters:

name - of class to retrieve

Returns:

class loaded

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException