Well I am actually patching URLClassLoader. RemoteURLLoader seemed to provide some connection to http protocol. When is it exactly used? I tried to manually add an http URL (jar:/http://www.mywebsite/myjar.jar) in URLClassLoader constructor (using addURL method), and indeed it tries to use RemoteURLLoader.
although this doesn't work, for some reason it throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Test <<No stacktrace available>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/java/net/protocol/http/Headers at gnu.java.net.protocol.http.HTTPURLConnection.<init>( HTTPURLConnection.java:101) at gnu.java.net.protocol.http.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:69) at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:723) at gnu.java.net.protocol.jar.Connection$JarFileCache.get(Connection.java :102) at gnu.java.net.protocol.jar.Connection.connect(Connection.java:140) at gnu.java.net.protocol.jar.Connection.getInputStream(Connection.java :158) at gnu.java.net.loader.RemoteURLLoader.getResource(RemoteURLLoader.java :80) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:532) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:380) at java.lang.ClassLoader$1.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:1150) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:332) Is this sci-fi to work inside URLClasseLoader to load classes from http URL ? Regards, Martin 2007/5/29, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schlienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> -I noticed that URLLoader and RemoteURLLoader are also Martin> intended to load remote directories. May someone give me any Martin> hint to use these one? These are only for use as internal helpers of URLClassLoader. Martin> The very best would be that we launch our software with jamvm Martin> -classpath http: //url-to-my-classpath-classes/mypackage.jar You may want to look at JNLP. Martin> Another question: what is the gnu/java/net/loader/Load_ prefix Martin> for? there is no class that begins with Load_ . This is in cases a VM wants to add support for some URL type it provides. libgcj uses this to handle gcjlib: URLs. Tom