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This basic example shows how an application can instantiate a classloader and use it to dynamically load a class. URL[] urls = new URL[] {new URL("file:/home/me/extras.jar")}; Classloader loader = new URLClassLoader(urls); Class<?> myObjectClass = loader.findClass("com.exampl...

Every custom loader must directly or indirectly extend the java.lang.ClassLoader class. The main extension points are the following methods: findClass(String) - overload this method if your classloader follows the standard delegation model for class loading. loadClass(String, boolean) - overloa...

To load a class we first need to define it. The class is defined by the ClassLoader. There's just one problem, Oracle didn't write the ClassLoader's code with this feature available. To define the class we will need to access a method named defineClass() which is a private method of the ClassLoader....