Compiling RMI Applications ?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

Matt> I'm wondering what the status of dynamic class loading in GCJ
Matt> is. Is anyone working on this? How hard would it be to compile
Matt> .class files to shared objects (.so) and have
Matt> "System.loadClass()" look for a .so and load that into the
Matt> address space of the process? The tricky bits would be resolving
Matt> class constants and so forth, but it should be possible.
Matt> Thoughts?

I don't think it would be very hard to implement.
Anybody thinking about actually doing it is advised to use libltdl to
handle loading the shared objects.

T