Bernd Wengenroth wrote:
>
> Paul Reavis wrote:
> >
> > And you should be able to get around it with a custom classloader (which
> > isn't as hard to implement as you might think).
>
> *smile*, that exactly what i want.
> I want to speed up the start of plugin-applications with an own
> class-loader.
> I start with a very small preloader, that can display some more custom
> "loading..."-Messages while the main part of the application is loaded
> from a huge jar-file.
> But i don't want to load ALL classes at startup.
> Some classes should be loaded on demand from a server.
> I think i must do this with a direct file-access ;)
I think JavaWorld had a short article on custom class loaders, written
by our local guru Jack Harich. If you can find it, I recommend it; it's
a bit old though-
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Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Design Lead
Partner Software, Inc. http://www.partnersoft.com
