See the javadoc for java.lang.reflect.Layer
http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Layer.html
There is a simple example of something similar there.
/Michael
On Jan 11, 2017 6:04 PM, "Piotr Chmielewski" <piotr.ch....@gmail.com> wrote:
> For one of my projects, I decided to create "plugin" system to load class
> at runtime from JAR files. Currently, I load each plugin using
> URLClassLoader.
>
> With arrival of JDK9, is there any plans for loading modules at runtime
> (or is available already for testing in build snapshots)? For example
> instead of:
>
> String pluginPath = "CPU_Monitor.jar";
>
> URL pluginUrl = new URL(pluginPath);
>
> URL[] urls = {pluginUrl};
>
> URLClassLoader urlClassLoader = new URLClassLoader(urls);
>
> Class<?> pluginClass = urlClassLoader.findClass("com.
> example.cpu.monitoring.Monitor");
>
>
> Would be possible to use something like this:
>
> Module pluginModule = ModuleManager.getModule("com.e
> xample.cpu.Monitoring");
>
> Class<?> pluginClass = pluginModule.getClass("com.exa
> mple.cpu.monitoring.Monitor");
>
>
> I guess that something like this could be implemented as library outside
> JDK, but such API could be great addition to Jigsaw.
>
>
