Replacing Base Class Loader

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Hi All,
I'm using SOAP to transfer Java Objects to my application. Everything works great if the client has access to the class file for the object it receives.
I get a ClassNotFoundException in my deserializer if the class file is not available on the client.
I can solve this problem (I think) if I can replace the base class loader with mine. Does anyone know how this can be done?

Thanks.

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I don't think there's any way to replace the system classLoader, but I think you can augment it during application initialization with a custom classLoader. See this JavaWorld article.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-03-classload.html

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Thanks for the reply. I think I've got a much better idea of how this stuff works now. I think what I need to do is register my deserializer with SOAP as a class that will really load the deserializer using Class.forName() with my class loader as a parameter. Then when the bootstrap class loader can't find a class, findClass() in my classloader will be called and I can load it from a URL.
Should work.
Thanks very much!