001    /* DefaultLoaderRepository.java -- Manages class loaders for the servers.
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037    
038    package javax.management;
039    
040    import java.util.List;
041    
042    /**
043     * Maintains a list of the {@link ClassLoader} instances
044     * registered with the management servers, allowing it
045     * to be used to load classes.  In early versions of the
046     * JMX API, this class represented a shared repository for
047     * the classloaders of all management servers.  The management
048     * of classloaders is now decentralised and this class is
049     * deprecated.  The old behaviour is emulated by consulting
050     * the {@link MBeanServer#getClassLoaderRepository()} method
051     * of all the servers obtained from
052     * {@link MBeanServerFactory#findMBeanServer(String)}.  Use of
053     * this class should be avoided in new code.
054     *
055     * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
056     * @since 1.5
057     * @deprecated Use {@link MBeanServer#getClassLoaderRepository()}
058     *             instead.
059     */
060    @Deprecated public class DefaultLoaderRepository
061    {
062    
063      /**
064       * Attempts to load the given class using class loaders
065       * supplied by the repository of each {@link MBeanServer}.
066       * The {@link ClassLoader#loadClass(String)}
067       * method of each class loader is called.  If the method
068       * returns successfully, then the returned {@link Class} instance
069       * is returned.  If a {@link ClassNotFoundException} is thrown,
070       * then the next loader is tried.  Any other exception thrown
071       * by the method is passed back to the caller.  This method
072       * throws a {@link ClassNotFoundException} itself if all the
073       * class loaders listed prove fruitless.
074       *
075       * @param name the name of the class to load.
076       * @return the loaded class.
077       * @throws ClassNotFoundException if all the class loaders fail
078       *                                to load the class.
079       */
080      // API issue with lack of <?> on Class
081      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
082      public static Class loadClass(String name)
083        throws ClassNotFoundException
084      {
085        List<MBeanServer> servers = MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer(null);
086        for (MBeanServer server : servers)
087          {
088            try
089              {
090                return server.getClassLoaderRepository().loadClass(name);
091              }
092            catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
093              {
094                /* Ignored; try the next server. */
095              }
096          }
097        throw new ClassNotFoundException("The class loaders of all registered " +
098                                         "servers failed to load the class, " +
099                                         name);
100      }
101    
102      /**
103       * <p>
104       * Attempts to load the given class using class loaders
105       * supplied by the repository of each {@link MBeanServer}.
106       * The {@link ClassLoader#loadClass(String)}
107       * method of each class loader is called.  If the method
108       * returns successfully, then the returned {@link Class} instance
109       * is returned.  If a {@link ClassNotFoundException} is thrown,
110       * then the next loader is tried.  Any other exception thrown
111       * by the method is passed back to the caller.  This method
112       * throws a {@link ClassNotFoundException} itself if all the
113       * class loaders listed prove fruitless.
114       * </p>
115       * <p>
116       * Note that this method may deadlock if called simultaneously
117       * by two class loaders in the list.
118       * {@link loadClassBefore(ClassLoader, String)} should be used
119       * in preference to this method to avoid this.
120       * </p>
121       *
122       * @param exclude the class loader to exclude, or <code>null</code>
123       *             to obtain the same behaviour as {@link #loadClass(String)}.
124       * @param name the name of the class to load.
125       * @return the loaded class.
126       * @throws ClassNotFoundException if all the class loaders fail
127       *                                to load the class.
128       */
129      // API issue with lack of <?> on Class
130      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
131      public static Class loadClassWithout(ClassLoader exclude, String name)
132        throws ClassNotFoundException
133      {
134        List<MBeanServer> servers = MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer(null);
135        for (MBeanServer server : servers)
136          {
137            try
138              {
139                return server.getClassLoaderRepository().loadClassWithout(exclude,
140                                                                          name);
141              }
142            catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
143              {
144                /* Ignored; try the next server. */
145              }
146          }
147        throw new ClassNotFoundException("The class loaders of all registered " +
148                                         "servers failed to load the class, " +
149                                         name);
150      }
151    
152    }