On Apr 17, 7:36 pm, "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any alternative (ClassLoader?) to store the .class files in a > different compressed format?.NET can store lots of classes in one > assembly? Is there something like that for JVM?
ClassLoaders can do almost anything, including load classes via HTTP, so I expect it would be possible to write a custom ClassLoader that uses a different compression format (like tar.gz). But it wouldn't necessarily be easy. ZIP is convenient because it permits random access to any file within the archive, which tar does not. Here's an (old) article with a related example: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2000/jw-0421-zipclass.html -Stuart Sierra --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
