/* * Copyright 2005-2010 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.wamblee.classloading; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.lang.reflect.Method; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLClassLoader; /** * Utility for adding jars to the system class loader. */ public class ClassLoaderUtils { // No logging in this class to keep the required class libraries // limited to the standard java classes. This allows use of the // utilities in an environment with a very limited classpath. private static final String JAR_SUFFIX = ".jar"; /** * Adds all jars in the given directory to the class path. * * @param aDirectory * Directory. * @throws IOException */ public static void addJarsInDirectory(File aDirectory) throws IOException { System.out.println("directory '" + aDirectory + "'"); for (File aFile : aDirectory.listFiles()) { System.out .println("Considering '" + aFile.getCanonicalPath() + "'"); if (aFile.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(JAR_SUFFIX)) { System.out.println("Adding '" + aFile.getCanonicalPath() + "' to classpath."); addFile(aFile); } } } /** * Adds a file to the classpath. * * @param aFilename * Filename to add. * @throws IOException */ public static void addFile(String aFilename) throws IOException { File f = new File(aFilename); addFile(f); } /** * Adds a file to the classpath. * * @param aFile * File to add. * @throws IOException */ public static void addFile(File aFile) throws IOException { addURL(aFile.toURI().toURL()); } /** * Adds a url to the classpath. * * @param aUrl * Url to add. * @throws IOException */ public static void addURL(URL aUrl) throws IOException { URLClassLoader sysloader = (URLClassLoader) ClassLoader .getSystemClassLoader(); Class sysclass = URLClassLoader.class; try { Method method = sysclass.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", new Class[] { URL.class }); method.setAccessible(true); method.invoke(sysloader, new Object[] { aUrl }); } catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace(); throw new IOException( "Error, could not add URL to system classloader"); } } }