Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet
On 5/7/2012 8:47 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
"Arne Vajh?j"<arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
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On 5/5/2012 1:25 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
So, I have the default, fallback, rough-as-guts option for obtaining user
credentials but would like to allow the consumers of my Applet to
override
the default and supply their own much slicker +/- localized UI. So I have
the simple interface below that each prospective UI class must implement
but
I don't know what part packages/protection play in this scenario as well
as
reflection. If there are any people here with direct experience of the
following conditions/questions I would be very grateful for their
advice: -
1) Can a class loaded via Reflection (eg: myInter localGUI =
(myInter)(class.forName("appletParameter").newInstance())) be in the same
Package, and enjoy the benefits/protection of same, as the caller?
Ideally
here, the methods/variables/properties of the newly loaded class (albeit
under the restriction of being loaded from the same codebase) being
package
private and not public? Again ideally, I do not want the methods in this
GUI
to be accessible from JavaScript but obviously accessible from my applet.
The loaded class can certainly be in the same package as the caller.
Cool. So they just point their classpath at my interface bearing JAR an it
should all be good/doable.
I guess I'll have some Manifest issues getting the/my original JAR to look
for the new gui.JAR or with the Multi-JAR codebase/archive Object attributes
sort the classpath out automagically?
I think specifying multi jar in the HTML is the way to go.
2) I'd expect the "tier3Client" implementing class (and any additional
classes) to be supplied in a separate archive/JAR file and this will be
located via the "archive=a,b,c" specifier (with "codebase_lookup" set to
false). My "understanding" is that class.forName() will use the same
classloader as the Applet and therefore I'm hoping that it will happily
search through all specified JAR files looking for the requested class?
If you do not specify a classloader in the forName call (there is an
overload for that), then you will get the current classes classloader.
3) Are there any other restrictions/requirements or wil this just not
work?
Will their jar and your jar be loaded from the same location?
Yep.
That avoids some potential issues.
Arne
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