I am trying to load classes from a specified 'Hot Drop' directory with the following code..
// Convert the file object to a URL
URL url = getMyDir().toURL();
urls = new URL[]{url};
// Create a new class loader with the directory
this.classLoader = new URLClassLoader(urls,Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
When loading classes that refer to other objects that are deployed in the .war or .jar files I continually get 'ClassNotFoundException'. The ClassLoader that I am using is taking the current threads ClassLoader as a parent parameter. Should this not give the URLClassLoader visibility to the objects loaded by the appServer via the delegation model? If I place the dependent classes in the hot drop directory it expectantly it works. How do I get around this?
