> Quick question: Can anyone post a link with a description (or just > describe it here) of how the VM interacts with the instrumentation API > to process the bytestream of a class using ClassFileTransformer? > Does the VM invoke the class loader to find a class first, before > handing the class definition off to the ClassFileTransformer? I assume > this is so but I want to be sure.
From what I remember the JVM will receive a request to load a class. It retrieves the bytes of the class. It then calls the method "transform" of the "Premain-Class" (specified in the MANIFEST.MF of the enhancer jar) with the input bytes for the class. This method can transform the bytecode of that class and return it, or return null (meaning there is no change to the class definition). See http://datanucleus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/datanucleus/platform/enhancer/trunk/src/java/org/datanucleus/enhancer/DataNucleusClassFileTransformer.java?revision=2302&view=markup That's about it. -- Andy (DataNucleus - http://www.datanucleus.org)
