Calling Jar file from Jar files

[feda alshahwan]

Can we run a jar file from a jar file?

[Tim Holloway]

feda alshahwan wrote:Can we run a jar file from a jar file?

Not directly. The Java classloader structure doesn't look inside embedded jars.

You can write a custom classloader that can be used to resolve the classes and class resources in an embedded jar, however. That's what programs such as the Tomcat webserver do, where a WAR (jar) contains jars in the WAR's WEB-INF/lib directory.

[feda alshahwan]

Thank you but what is the algorithm of the custom classloader? Is their any ready API ?

[Tim Holloway]

feda alshahwan wrote:Thank you but what is the algorithm of the custom classloader? Is their any ready API ?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html