Problems with the tomcat classloader

[roli82001]

Hello

While developing a very small and lightweight j2ee linke server, I try to extend a abstract class at runtime using:

ClassPool pool = ClassPool.getDefault();

                              pool.insertClassPath(new ClassClassPath(this.getClass()));

                              CtClass cc = pool.makeClass("HelloWorldClientBean");

                              cc.setSuperclass(pool.get("ch.isn.dante.comserver.test.HelloWorldSessionBean"));

Class beanClass = cc.toClass();

cc.defrost();

Class argsClass[] = new Class[]{ComServerSession.class,ServerApplication.class};

Constructor constructor = beanClass.getConstructor(argsClass);

Object[] params = new Object[]{new ComServerSession(),null};  

HelloWorldSessionBean sessionBean = (HelloWorldSessionBean)constructor.newInstance(params);

System.out.println("Hello World Output: " + sessionBean.getHelloWorld());

This works fine on the client side (regular java vm).

On the server side I get first a very strange exception which was stangely related to the tomcats classloader.

javassist.CannotCompileException: by java.lang.LinkageError: loader (instance of  org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappClassLoader): attempted  duplicate class definition for name: "ch/isn/dante/comserver/test/HelloWorldSessionBeanExecutable"

javassist.CannotCompileException: by java.lang.LinkageError: loader (instance of  org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappClassLoader): attempted  duplicate class definition for name: "ch/isn/dante/comserver/test/HelloWorldSessionBeanExecutable"

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:1089)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:1032)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:990)

        at javassist.CtClass.toClass(CtClass.java:1125)

...

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader (instance of  org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappClassLoader): attempted  duplicate class definition for name: "ch/isn/dante/comserver/test/HelloWorldSessionBeanExecutable"

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:465)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass2(ClassPool.java:1102)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:1083)

To prevent this I wrote a very ugly hack to use the system class loader and add the classpath in which this superclass:

			URL url = new File(serverServlet.getInstallDir() + "WEB-INF/classes/").toURL();
			URLClassLoader sysloader = (URLClassLoader) ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
			Class sysclass = URLClassLoader.class;
			Method method = sysclass.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", parameters);
			method.setAccessible(true);
			method.invoke(sysloader, new Object[]{url});

and created the class using this modified classloader:

		Class beanClass = cc.toClass(sysloader);
		cc.defrost();

Now I get a NoSuchMethodException:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: HelloWorldServerBean.<init>(ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ComServerSession, ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ServerApplication)

        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2706)

        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1657)

        at ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ComServerSession.loadClass(ComServerSession.java:239)

        at ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ComServer.doGet(ComServer.java:286)

        at ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ComServer.doPost(ComServer.java:417)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

I can't see from which this error comes. When I  inspect the newly created class I get one constructor:

public HelloWorldClientBean(ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ComServerSession,ch.isn.dante.comserver.server.ServerApplication) which matches with the constructor instancing:

Class argsClass[] = new Class[]{ComServerSession.class,ServerApplication.class};

Constructor constructor = beanClass.getConstructor(argsClass);

So I can't see the problem. Is it not possible to extend a abstract class on the server side or have I done something completely wrong. So I would ask if anybody can give me some help.