Dynamic Classloading from Jar Files

[Zak Nixon]

In my previous posts, we ran the dynamic class loading example from Sun.
Now, we need to load these classes from a set of .jar files.

Is there any way to do that ?

Zak

[Nathan Pruett]

You'd have to write a different ClassServer - rather than ClassFileServer, you'd have something like ClassJarFileServer, that's able to take a JAR file and extract the class files from it and send them to clients. Luckily, Java provides you with a lot of classes to already do operations like this on JAR files.