security providers and ...

Wed Jul 10 12:14:00 GMT 2002

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Vladimir Puskas wrote:
> My idea was to intercept Enhydra's classloader and prevent it loading a class,
> if class is already compiled and linked into binary. Classloader supports
> filtering which would perfectly match this task, but I couldn't find the
> method to do this.

That's the default behavior of ClassLoader.loadClass(), it searches
compiled classes before attempting to load bytecode. Well-behaved
classloaders will delegate to the parent first, often the system
classloader, so you shouldn't have to do anything out of the ordinary.
Jeff