cast across classloader?
- by IttayD
How can I do this:
class Foo {
public static Foo get() throws Exception {
ClassLoader cl = new URLClassLoader(new URL[]{"foo.jar"}, null); // Foo.class is in foo.jar
return (Foo)cl.loadClass("Foo").newInstance(); // fails on class cast
}
}
What I need is for the JVM to consider the Foo instance from cl as if it is an instance of Foo from the classloader of the executing code.
I have seen these approaches, none of them good for me (the above example is a toy example):
Load the class (or a separate interface) by a class loader that is a parent of both the calling code and created classloader
Serialize and deserialize the object.
