Re: Idiom for forcing class loading?
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
Self-registering classes are not the best design. Under extremely rare
circumstances, references from live classes to the registration
container might not exist during a GC - then it's suddenly empty. In a
web server or other application with multiple ClassLoaders, it might not
be clear where things are going. For the work I've done, there were
enough problems to justify not using JDBC driver self-registration with
DriverManager.
Consider a configuration parameter that is a list of classes that your
registration container should load when it initializes.
Sadly, the registration container is third-party, and i can't change it.
Annoyingly, the system it's in has a dependency injection framework with a
nice layering mechanism that lets modules we build add to the
configuration of components defined by others. If the container was a
component in this framework, adding classes to its to-do list would be as
simple as putting their names in a file. But it isn't!
tom
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