Upgrading an existing ClassLoader to support modules

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/10/2016 20:39, Thomas Watson wrote:
> :
>
> Thanks.  I'm curious when this method gets used.  I suspected it was 
> by the built-in jdk.internal.loader.Loaderloaders, but when I override 
> this method I don't see it ever getting called.  It seems to be used 
> by the package private method ClassLoader.loadClass(Module module, 
> String name)but it is unclear when this is used.  In my experiment I 
> have a Layer with mapped custom class loaders and then I have a child 
> layer using the default jdk.internal.loader.Loaderloaders.  I observe 
> the jdk.internal.loader.Loaderis successfully delegating to to my 
> custom loaders in the parent layer.
Look at Class.forName(Module, String), also the Class getResourceXXX 
methods.

-Alan