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Peter,
On 4/2/12 2:05 PM, Peter Lavin wrote:
> this may be a general Java question or their may be a specific
> answer related to Tomcat.
This is unrelated to Tomcat, since you are using java.net.URLClassLoader.
> I am running a simple webservice which loads classes using a
> URLClassloader...
>
> // start of code snippet ClassLoader previous =
> Thread.currentThread() .getContextClassLoader(); URLClassLoader
> loader = new URLClassLoader(new URL[] { new
> URL("http://localhost/classes/";)}, previous);
>
>
> String className = "common.MyClassToBeLoaded"; Class<?> ho =
> loader.loadClass(className); // end
>
> This ok, but when I edit and recompile a class which is loaded,
> the changes to MyClassToBeLoaded.java are not reflected in the
> webservice.
That's the way most ClassLoaders work: they are designed to cache
classes so that performance doesn't totally suck. Imagine if the JVM
kept having to check to see if java.lang.Object had been updated...
> Is there a way to empty this cache, or disable caching all
> together?
Not without implementing your own ClassLoader. You could read the code
for WebappClassLoader to see how it's done in there.
> There are some suggestions out there but none specific to Tomcat.
That's because this can be done without regard to Tomcat's operation.
- -chris
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