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RMIClassLoaderSpi.javaAPI DocJava SE 6 API6984Tue Jun 10 00:25:44 BST 2008java.rmi.server

RMIClassLoaderSpi

public abstract class RMIClassLoaderSpi extends Object
RMIClassLoaderSpi is the service provider interface for RMIClassLoader. In particular, an RMIClassLoaderSpi instance provides an implementation of the following static methods of RMIClassLoader:
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(URL,String)}
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(String,String)}
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(String,String,ClassLoader)}
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#loadProxyClass(String,String[],ClassLoader)}
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#getClassLoader(String)}
  • {@link RMIClassLoader#getClassAnnotation(Class)}
When one of those methods is invoked, its behavior is to delegate to a corresponding method on an instance of this class. The details of how each method delegates to the provider instance is described in the documentation for each particular method. See the documentation for {@link RMIClassLoader} for a description of how a provider instance is chosen.
version
1.16, 06/04/07
author
Peter Jones
author
Laird Dornin
see
RMIClassLoader
since
1.4

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public abstract java.lang.StringgetClassAnnotation(java.lang.Class cl)
Provides the implementation for {@link RMIClassLoader#getClassAnnotation(Class)}. Returns the annotation string (representing a location for the class definition) that RMI will use to annotate the class descriptor when marshalling objects of the given class.

param
cl the class to obtain the annotation for
return
a string to be used to annotate the given class when it gets marshalled, or null
throws
NullPointerException if cl is null

public abstract java.lang.ClassLoadergetClassLoader(java.lang.String codebase)
Provides the implementation for {@link RMIClassLoader#getClassLoader(String)}. Returns a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase URL path.

If there is a security manger, its checkPermission method will be invoked with a RuntimePermission("getClassLoader") permission; this could result in a SecurityException. The implementation of this method may also perform further security checks to verify that the calling context has permission to connect to all of the URLs in the codebase URL path.

param
codebase the list of URLs (space-separated) from which the returned class loader will load classes from, or null
return
a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase URL path
throws
MalformedURLException if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to identify the class loader is invalid
throws
SecurityException if there is a security manager and the invocation of its checkPermission method fails, or if the caller does not have permission to connect to all of the URLs in the codebase URL path

public abstract java.lang.ClassloadClass(java.lang.String codebase, java.lang.String name, java.lang.ClassLoader defaultLoader)
Provides the implementation for {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(URL,String)}, {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(String,String)}, and {@link RMIClassLoader#loadClass(String,String,ClassLoader)}. Loads a class from a codebase URL path, optionally using the supplied loader. Typically, a provider implementation will attempt to resolve the named class using the given defaultLoader, if specified, before attempting to resolve the class from the codebase URL path.

An implementation of this method must either return a class with the given name or throw an exception.

param
codebase the list of URLs (separated by spaces) to load the class from, or null
param
name the name of the class to load
param
defaultLoader additional contextual class loader to use, or null
return
the Class object representing the loaded class
throws
MalformedURLException if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to load classes is invalid
throws
ClassNotFoundException if a definition for the class could not be found at the specified location

public abstract java.lang.ClassloadProxyClass(java.lang.String codebase, java.lang.String[] interfaces, java.lang.ClassLoader defaultLoader)
Provides the implementation for {@link RMIClassLoader#loadProxyClass(String,String[],ClassLoader)}. Loads a dynamic proxy class (see {@link java.lang.reflect.Proxy} that implements a set of interfaces with the given names from a codebase URL path, optionally using the supplied loader.

An implementation of this method must either return a proxy class that implements the named interfaces or throw an exception.

param
codebase the list of URLs (space-separated) to load classes from, or null
param
interfaces the names of the interfaces for the proxy class to implement
return
a dynamic proxy class that implements the named interfaces
param
defaultLoader additional contextual class loader to use, or null
throws
MalformedURLException if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to load classes is invalid
throws
ClassNotFoundException if a definition for one of the named interfaces could not be found at the specified location, or if creation of the dynamic proxy class failed (such as if {@link java.lang.reflect.Proxy#getProxyClass(ClassLoader,Class[])} would throw an IllegalArgumentException for the given interface list)