Question

In a customer class loader, I have a method findClass as follows:

 public Class findClass(String className){
    byte classByte[];
    Class result=null;
    result = (Class)classes.get(className);
    if(result != null){
        return result;
    }


    try{
        return findSystemClass(className);
    }catch(Exception e){
    }
    try{
       String classPath =    
  ((String)ClassLoader.getSystemResource(className.replace('.',File.separatorChar)+".class").getFile()).substring(1);
       classByte = loadClassData(classPath);
        result = defineClass(className,classByte,0,classByte.length,null);
        classes.put(className,result);
        return result;
    }catch(Exception e){
        return null;
    } 
}

How do I specify the name of a class that I’m trying to find if the class is in the default package. For example, if the class is named myclass.class, how do I pass this name to this method. Calling it as findClass("myclass") or findClass("myclass.class")doesn’t seem to work.

Answer 1

Try with fully qualified name: findClass("mypackage.MyClass")