Re: Getting a list of Classes in a Package
Omega wrote:
This process isn't impossible as it is right now, it is simply
crippled. If you maintain a list of class "names" for your runtime to
instantiate, you can get this. It is this list I want to avoid having
to require users/admins to create & maintain.
By using recent changes in the 1.6 release of Java, you can include
entire directories in the classpath. This is part one of making my
desired functionality a reality. It allows the configuration of a
specific directory which has all .JAR files located in it to be
loaded.
What I see as a difficulty with what you are asking for is that you
don't know how many classes there are on any given system.
Sure you *your* system right now there maybe a few thousand, easy enough
to iterate though. But on other systems there may be millions or tens
of millions of classes. Maybe more than a dead O(n) search should handle.
What you really want is a clean way of iterating through only one
package, and of detecting when a new .jar file is added to the classpath
(or other locations). Then you can detect when only certain classes
(ones in the package name space you devise) are added. This could
provide needed performance improvement that sysadmins so love. In the
mean time, taking a file handle or file name through IPC and iterating
through a .jar isn't so bad. Some people even think file systems should
be the API for everything. ;-)
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