ClassLoader

[Geoff Berry]

Kresten Krab Thorup <krab@gnu.org> writes:

[snip]
> It seems like JarURLConnection needs to be able to create a temporary
> file containg the jar file, in case it is coming from the net.  The
> spec doesn't say explicitly.  This is needed because JarURLConnection
> needs to provide a java.util.jar.JarFile instance of it's contents,
> and JarFile's only operate on RandomAccessFile's.
> 
> The question is how to do this the best way.  I'd actually prefer if
> the jar file would not have to be written to the file system at all.
> It seems like it would be sufficient to have an in-memory
> representation, and let swapping take care of the rest.  The problem
> is, that there is no such thing as a RandomAccessByteArrayFile, or the
> like.  So this is not realy a viable option.

Why not just use File.createTempFile and let the implementation deal
with having a file-system or not?

-- 
Geoff Berry