org.codehaus.aspectwerkz
Class ContextClassLoader

java.lang.Object
  org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.ContextClassLoader

public final class ContextClassLoader

extends Object

Utility methods dealing with the context class loader. Fail-over is provided to the default class loader.

Author:

Jonas Bonér

Constructor Summary

ContextClassLoader()

Method Summary

static ClassLoader	getLoader() Returns the context class loader.
static InputStream	getResourceAsStream(String name) Loads a resource from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader, as stream
static InputStream	getResourceAsStream(String name, ClassLoader loader) Loads a resource from the given class loader as stream
static Class	loadClass(String name) Loads a class from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader.
static URL	loadResource(String name) Loads a resource from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ContextClassLoader

public ContextClassLoader()

Method Detail

loadClass

public static Class loadClass(String name)
                       throws ClassNotFoundException

Loads a class from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader.

Parameters:

name - is the name of the class to load.

Returns:

a Class object.

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException - if the class was not found.

loadResource

public static URL loadResource(String name)

Loads a resource from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader.

Parameters:

name - is the name of the resource to load.

Returns:

a URL object.

getResourceAsStream

public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name)

Loads a resource from the context class loader or, if that fails, from the default class loader, as stream

Parameters:

name - is the name of the resource to load.

Returns:

a InputStream object.

getResourceAsStream

public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name,
                                              ClassLoader loader)

Loads a resource from the given class loader as stream

Parameters:

name - is the name of the resource to load.

loader -

Returns:

a InputStream object.

getLoader

public static ClassLoader getLoader()

Returns the context class loader.

Returns:

the context class loader