Constructor Detail

• ClassLoaderUtil

  public ClassLoaderUtil()

Method Detail

• getResource

  public static URL getResource(String resourceName,
                                Class callingClass)

  Load a given resource. This method will try to load the resource using the following methods (in order):

  • From Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
  • From ClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader()
  • callingClass.getClassLoader()

  Parameters:

  resourceName - The name of the resource to load

  callingClass - The Class object of the calling object

• getResourceAsStream

  public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resourceName,
                                                Class callingClass)

  This is a convenience method to load a resource as a stream. The algorithm used to find the resource is given in getResource()

  Parameters:

  resourceName - The name of the resource to load

  callingClass - The Class object of the calling object

• loadClass

  public static Class loadClass(String className,
                                Class callingClass)
                         throws ClassNotFoundException

  Load a class with a given name. It will try to load the class in the following order:

  • From Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
  • Using the basic Class.forName()
  • From ClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader()
  • From the callingClass.getClassLoader()

  Parameters:

  className - The name of the class to load

  callingClass - The Class object of the calling object

  Throws:

  ClassNotFoundException - If the class cannot be found anywhere.