Dynamic Class Loading in the Java Virtual Machine (1998)
| Venue: | In Proc. 13th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'98), volume 33, number 10 of ACM SIGPLAN Notices |
| Citations: | 164 - 1 self |
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Liang98dynamicclass,
author = {Sheng Liang and Gilad Bracha},
title = {Dynamic Class Loading in the Java Virtual Machine},
booktitle = {In Proc. 13th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'98), volume 33, number 10 of ACM SIGPLAN Notices},
year = {1998},
pages = {36--44},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Class loaders are a powerful mechanism for dynamically loading software components on the Java platform. They are unusual in supporting all of the following features: laziness, type-safe linkage, user-defined extensibility, and multiple communicating namespaces. We present the notion of class loaders and demonstrate some of their interesting uses. In addition, we discuss how to maintain type safety in the presence of user-defined dynamic class loading. 1 Introduction In this paper, we investigate an important feature of the Java virtual machine: dynamic class loading. This is the underlying mechanism that provides much of the power of the Java platform: the ability to install software components at runtime. An example of a component is an applet that is downloaded into a web browser. While many other systems [16] [13] also support some form of dynamic loading and linking, the Java platform is the only system we know of that incorporates all of the following features: 1. Lazy loadi...
