ant/org.eclipse.ant.core/src/org/eclipse/ant/internal/core/AntClassLoader.java

/*******************************************************************************
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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) - patch for bug 40972
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ant.internal.core;


import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;

public class AntClassLoader extends URLClassLoader {

	protected ClassLoader[] pluginLoaders;
	private static final String ANT_PACKAGES_PREFIX= "org.apache.tools"; //$NON-NLS-1$
	
	public AntClassLoader(URL[] urls, ClassLoader[] pluginLoaders) {
		super(urls, ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader());
		this.pluginLoaders = pluginLoaders;
	}

	protected Class findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
		Class result = null;
		//do not load the "base" ant classes from the plugin class loaders 
		//these should only be specified from the Ant runtime classpath preferences setting
		if (!(name.startsWith(ANT_PACKAGES_PREFIX))) {
			result= loadClassPlugins(name);
		}
		if (result == null) {
			result = loadClassURLs(name);
		}
		if (result == null) {
			throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
		}
		return result;
	}

	protected Class loadClassURLs(String name) {
		try {
			return super.findClass(name);
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			// Ignore exception now. If necessary we'll throw
			// a ClassNotFoundException in findClass(String)
		}
		return null;
	}

	protected Class loadClassPlugins(String name) {
		Class result = null;
		if (pluginLoaders != null) {
			for (int i = 0; (i < pluginLoaders.length) && (result == null); i++) {
				try {
					result = pluginLoaders[i].loadClass(name);
				} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
					// Ignore exception now. If necessary we'll throw
					// a ClassNotFoundException in loadClass(String)
				}
			}
		}
		return result;
	}
}