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Is it possible to just add .class files of java classes into the ear file on a running app server and not needing to restart it. How does the JVM classloader loads it in this way. I was under the impression that the classloader loads a file on startup and if you are going to change a class file in a running app server you will have to restart the server.
An EAR is a JAR file with some additional information, so you can use the same approach as your J2EE container: Create a new classloader (try
URLClassLoader) and give it the necessary information to load the new classes.This works for new classes; replacing existing classes is a different matter because all instances of these classes contain references to the original type. There is no general approach to solve this but the guys at JRebel wrote a classloader which can do that too (with some limits).