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Mark Hage wrote:

>I'm creating an application and want to use the jar file of another 
>application.
>I want the user to point out where the other application is located and 
>then load that jar file at runtime.
>How do I do this??

Look at the class java.net.URLClassLoader.

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Kevin Dean [TeamB] wrote:
> Mark Hage wrote:
> 
>> I'm creating an application and want to use the jar file of another 
>> application.
>> I want the user to point out where the other application is located 
>> and then load that jar file at runtime.
>> How do I do this??
> 
> 
> Look at the class java.net.URLClassLoader.

For a working example, you could download Cayenne M10
release and look at the source code for their Modeler.
The Cayenne Modeler allows you to add JDBC drivers
(i.e. JARs) on the fly.

In particular, look at FileClassLoadingService in
the package, org.objectstyle.cayenne.modeler.  It
essentially uses URLClassLoader.  They subclass it
to encapsulate just a little bit more functionality.

Almost forgot the URL for Cayenne:

   http://objectstyle.org/cayenne


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