Re: define-simple-class and jars on the classpath?

[tarka at internode dot on dot net (Steve Smith)]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:28:39AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Try an explicit
>    Class.forName("org.apache.tools.ant.Task")
> and see if that works.

Yep, this works:

  import java.lang.*;
  import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
  public class AntTest extends Task {
     public static void main(String []args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
         AntTest a = new AntTest();
         System.out.println("Test run: " + Class.forName("org.apache.tools.ant.Task") + "\n");
     }
  }


> Maybe it's using the boot class laoder, rather than the system
> class loader.  (I'm not a ClassLoader expert!)  You can try
> getParent() on the ClassLoader returned by etClass().getClassLoader()
> to check that.

Assuming we're talking about gnu.bytecode.ObjectType that gives:

   Classloader = sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@a9c85c
   Classloader parent = null

Cheers,
Steve