Java tutorial
/* * Copyright 2003-2008 The Apache Software Foundation. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.security.AccessController; import java.security.PrivilegedAction; public class Main { /** * If running under JDK 1.2 load the specified class using the * <code>Thread</code> <code>contextClassLoader</code> if that * fails try Class.forname. * <p/> * * @param clazz * @return TODO * @throws ClassNotFoundException */ public static Class loadClass(String clazz) throws ClassNotFoundException { return loadClass(clazz, true); } public static Class loadClass(String clazz, boolean warn) throws ClassNotFoundException { try { ClassLoader tcl = getTCL(); if (tcl != null) { Class c = tcl.loadClass(clazz); if (c != null) { return c; } } } catch (Throwable e) { } // we reached here because tcl was null or because of a // security exception, or because clazz could not be loaded... // In any case we now try one more time return Class.forName(clazz); } /** * Get the Thread context class loader. * <p/> * * @return the Thread context class loader * @throws IllegalAccessException * @throws InvocationTargetException */ public static ClassLoader getTCL() throws IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException { return (ClassLoader) AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() { public Object run() { return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); } }); } }