MethodHandles.Lookup.defineResource?

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Aug 28 16:55:19 UTC 2018


On 28/08/2018 17:38, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> :
> OK, so maybe we've established what could be done - a new method on
> ClassLoader that would initially not work on implementations outside
> the JDK.
>
> So, there is a functionality gap here, but I'm guessing no particular
> desire to make a change.
>
I don't see this as a gap as there is no support for making new classes 
visible via the class path either.  As I think we've concluded, doing so 
would require extending the ClassLoader API and would require all custom 
implementations to support it.

-Alan


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