org.jboss.ejb3.common.classloader
Class PrimitiveAwareClassLoader

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.ClassLoader
      org.jboss.ejb3.common.classloader.PrimitiveAwareClassLoader

public class PrimitiveAwareClassLoader
extends java.lang.ClassLoader

PrimitiveAwareClassLoader This is more of a hack to avoid checking for primitives at multiple places while loading a class from a name.
The PrimitiveAwareClassLoader will first check whether the request is to load a primitive. If it's a primitive then it returns back the appropriate Class corresponding to the primitive. For all other requests, it redirects the request to the parent classloader.

Constructor Summary

PrimitiveAwareClassLoader(java.lang.ClassLoader parent)

Method Summary

protected java.lang.Class<?>

findClass(java.lang.String name) As recommended in ClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String), the findClass method should be overriden by the custom classloaders.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.ClassLoader

clearAssertionStatus, defineClass, defineClass, defineClass, defineClass, definePackage, findLibrary, findLoadedClass, findResource, findResources, findSystemClass, getPackage, getPackages, getParent, getResource, getResourceAsStream, getResources, getSystemClassLoader, getSystemResource, getSystemResourceAsStream, getSystemResources, loadClass, loadClass, resolveClass, setClassAssertionStatus, setDefaultAssertionStatus, setPackageAssertionStatus, setSigners

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PrimitiveAwareClassLoader

public PrimitiveAwareClassLoader(java.lang.ClassLoader parent)

Parameters:

parent - Parent classloader

Method Detail

findClass

protected java.lang.Class<?> findClass(java.lang.String name)
                                throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

As recommended in ClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String), the findClass method should be overriden by the custom classloaders. This method will first check whether the requested name is a primitive. If yes, it returns the appropriate Class for the primitive. If not, then it lets the parent handle it.

Overrides:

findClass in class java.lang.ClassLoader

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException