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Re: Dynamic class loading

To: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic class loading
From: Kresten Krab Thorup <krab at daimi dot au dot dk>
Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:57:03 +0100
Cc: Matt Welsh <mdw at cs dot berkeley dot edu>, Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <200002150702.XAA20691@mnemosyne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <200002150728.XAA12147@ferrule.cygnus.com>

Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:

> First we try to load a .so.  Then we try to find the .class file for
> the interpreter.  This choice was fairly arbitrary.
> 

It appears to me that this decision should be delegated to the current
classloader, i.e. the class gnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader should do
the searching and call Runtime.loadLibrary accordingly.

With such a design, other programmers may implement arbitrary new
search mechanisms (such as loading a .dll from the net).

-- Kresten

 Kresten Krab Thorup           "I like my eggs ploded"
 Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
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