Package org.eclipse.jetty.webapp

Interface WebAppClassLoader.Context

All Known Implementing Classes:

WebAppContext

Enclosing class:

WebAppClassLoader

public static interface WebAppClassLoader.Context

The Context in which the classloader operates.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	getExtraClasspath()
java.security.PermissionCollection	getPermissions()
boolean	isParentLoaderPriority()
boolean	isServerClass(java.lang.String clazz)	Is the class a Server Class.
boolean	isSystemClass(java.lang.String clazz)	Is the class a System Class.
org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource	newResource(java.lang.String urlOrPath)	Convert a URL or path to a Resource.

Method Detail

newResource

org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource newResource(java.lang.String urlOrPath)
                                              throws java.io.IOException

Convert a URL or path to a Resource. The default implementation is a wrapper for Resource.newResource(String).

Parameters:

urlOrPath - The URL or path to convert

Returns:

The Resource for the URL/path

Throws:

java.io.IOException - The Resource could not be created.

getPermissions

java.security.PermissionCollection getPermissions()

Returns:

Returns the permissions.

isSystemClass

boolean isSystemClass(java.lang.String clazz)

Is the class a System Class. A System class is a class that is visible to a webapplication, but that cannot be overridden by the contents of WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF/classes

Parameters:

clazz - The fully qualified name of the class.

Returns:

True if the class is a system class.

isServerClass

boolean isServerClass(java.lang.String clazz)

Is the class a Server Class. A Server class is a class that is part of the implementation of the server and is NIT visible to a webapplication. The web application may provide it's own implementation of the class, to be loaded from WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF/classes

Parameters:

clazz - The fully qualified name of the class.

Returns:

True if the class is a server class.

isParentLoaderPriority

boolean isParentLoaderPriority()

Returns:

True if the classloader should delegate first to the parent classloader (standard java behaviour) or false if the classloader should first try to load from WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF/classes (servlet spec recommendation).

getExtraClasspath

java.lang.String getExtraClasspath()