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Class sics.agentbase.core.BasicClassLoader

java.lang.Object
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           +----sics.agentbase.core.BasicClassLoader

public abstract class BasicClassLoader

extends ClassLoader

BasicClassLoader()

loadClass(String)

Loads a class by name using a specilized mechanism to load the class file.

loadClass(String, boolean)

Loads a class by name using a specilized mechanism to load the class file.

loadClassBytes(String)

This method will load the byte array corresponding to the class code.

 public BasicClassLoader()

 public Class loadClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException

Loads a class by name using a specilized mechanism to load the class file. The mechanism is encapsulated in the abstract method loadClassBytes() which is defined in each specialized class loader extending BasicClassLoader. The loader looks for class in a local cache first, in the class path second and finally using the specilized way to load the class file.

Parameters:

name - The name of the class to be loaded, without trailing ".class".

Returns:

The resulting class.

Overrides:

loadClass in class ClassLoader

See Also:

loadClass

 public synchronized Class loadClass(String name,
                                     boolean resolveIt) throws ClassNotFoundException

Loads a class by name using a specilized mechanism to load the class file. The mechanism is encapsulated in the abstract method loadClassBytes() which is defined in each specialized class loader extending BasicClassLoader. The loader looks for class in a local cache first, in the class path second and finally using the specilized way to load the class file.

Parameters:

name - The name of the class to be loaded, without trailing ".class".

resolveIt - Flag specifying whether the new class should be resolved.

Returns:

The resulting class.

Overrides:

loadClass in class ClassLoader

See Also:

loadClass

 protected abstract byte[] loadClassBytes(String name)

This method will load the byte array corresponding to the class code. It is an abstract method and a specialized class loader defines the way in which the bytes are loaded.

Parameters:

name - The name of the class to load.

Returns:

An array of bytes corresponding to the class code.

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