4.6. URLClassLoader Details
The java.net.URLClassLoader class extends SecureClassLoader and is used to load classes and resources from a search path of URLs referring to both JAR files and directories. Here are the two constructors:
public URLClassLoader(URL[] urls, ClassLoader parent) public URLClassLoader(URL[] urls)
The first method constructs a new URLClassLoader for the given URLs and assigns it parent as its delegation parent. The second method constructs a new URLClassLoader for the specified URLs, using the default delegation parent class loader, which is the application class loader. The URLs will be searched in the order specified for classes and resources but only after URLClassLoader first delegates to its parent by searching in ...
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