Class RMIClassLoaderSpi

java.lang.Object

java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoaderSpi

public abstract class RMIClassLoaderSpi extends Object

RMIClassLoaderSpi is the service provider interface for RMIClassLoader. In particular, an RMIClassLoaderSpi instance provides an implementation of the following static methods of RMIClassLoader:

When one of those methods is invoked, its behavior is to delegate to a corresponding method on an instance of this class. The details of how each method delegates to the provider instance is described in the documentation for each particular method. See the documentation for RMIClassLoader for a description of how a provider instance is chosen.

Since:

1.4

See Also:

Constructor Summary

Constructor	Description
`RMIClassLoaderSpi()`	Constructor for subclasses to call.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`abstract String`	`getClassAnnotation(Class<?> cl)`	Provides the implementation for `RMIClassLoader.getClassAnnotation(Class)`.
`abstract ClassLoader`	`getClassLoader(String codebase)`	Provides the implementation for `RMIClassLoader.getClassLoader(String)`.
`abstract Class<?>`	`loadClass(String codebase, String name, ClassLoader defaultLoader)`	Provides the implementation for `RMIClassLoader.loadClass(URL,String)`, `RMIClassLoader.loadClass(String,String)`, and `RMIClassLoader.loadClass(String,String,ClassLoader)`.
`abstract Class<?>`	`loadProxyClass(String codebase, String[] interfaces, ClassLoader defaultLoader)`	Provides the implementation for `RMIClassLoader.loadProxyClass(String,String[],ClassLoader)`.

Methods declared in class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`protected Object`	`clone()`	Creates and returns a copy of this object.
`boolean`	`equals(Object obj)`	Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
`protected void`	`finalize()`	Deprecated, for removal: This API element is subject to removal in a future version. Finalization is deprecated and subject to removal in a future release.
`final Class<?>`	`getClass()`	Returns the runtime class of this `Object`.
`int`	`hashCode()`	Returns a hash code value for this object.
`final void`	`notify()`	Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
`final void`	`notifyAll()`	Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
`String`	`toString()`	Returns a string representation of the object.
`final void`	`wait()`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.
`final void`	`wait(long timeoutMillis)`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.
`final void`	`wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

Constructor Details

RMIClassLoaderSpi

public RMIClassLoaderSpi()

Constructor for subclasses to call.

Method Details

loadClass

public abstract Class<?> loadClass(String codebase, String name, ClassLoader defaultLoader) throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException

Provides the implementation for RMIClassLoader.loadClass(URL,String), RMIClassLoader.loadClass(String,String), and RMIClassLoader.loadClass(String,String,ClassLoader). Loads a class from a codebase URL path, optionally using the supplied loader. Typically, a provider implementation will attempt to resolve the named class using the given defaultLoader, if specified, before attempting to resolve the class from the codebase URL path.

An implementation of this method must either return a class with the given name or throw an exception.

Parameters:: codebase - the list of URLs (separated by spaces) to load the class from, or null; name - the name of the class to load; defaultLoader - additional contextual class loader to use, or null
Returns:: the Class object representing the loaded class
Throws:: MalformedURLException - if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to load classes is invalid; ClassNotFoundException - if a definition for the class could not be found at the specified location

loadProxyClass

public abstract Class<?> loadProxyClass(String codebase, String[] interfaces, ClassLoader defaultLoader) throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException

Provides the implementation for RMIClassLoader.loadProxyClass(String,String[],ClassLoader). Loads a dynamic proxy class (see Proxy that implements a set of interfaces with the given names from a codebase URL path, optionally using the supplied loader.

An implementation of this method must either return a proxy class that implements the named interfaces or throw an exception.

Parameters:: codebase - the list of URLs (space-separated) to load classes from, or null; interfaces - the names of the interfaces for the proxy class to implement; defaultLoader - additional contextual class loader to use, or null
Returns:: a dynamic proxy class that implements the named interfaces
Throws:: MalformedURLException - if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to load classes is invalid; ClassNotFoundException - if a definition for one of the named interfaces could not be found at the specified location, or if creation of the dynamic proxy class failed (such as if Proxy.getProxyClass(ClassLoader,Class[]) would throw an IllegalArgumentException for the given interface list)

getClassLoader

public abstract ClassLoader getClassLoader(String codebase) throws MalformedURLException

Provides the implementation for RMIClassLoader.getClassLoader(String). Returns a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase URL path.

Parameters:: codebase - the list of URLs (space-separated) from which the returned class loader will load classes from, or null
Returns:: a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase URL path
Throws:: MalformedURLException - if codebase is non-null and contains an invalid URL, or if codebase is null and a provider-specific URL used to identify the class loader is invalid

getClassAnnotation

public abstract String getClassAnnotation(Class<?> cl)

Provides the implementation for RMIClassLoader.getClassAnnotation(Class). Returns the annotation string (representing a location for the class definition) that RMI will use to annotate the class descriptor when marshalling objects of the given class.

Parameters:: cl - the class to obtain the annotation for
Returns:: a string to be used to annotate the given class when it gets marshalled, or null
Throws:: NullPointerException - if cl is null

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