org.eclipse.jetty.webapp
Interface WebAppClassLoader.Context

All Known Implementing Classes:

TemplateContext, WebAppContext

Enclosing class:

WebAppClassLoader

public static interface WebAppClassLoader.Context

The Context in which the classloader operates.

Method Summary

String	getExtraClasspath()
PermissionCollection	getPermissions()
boolean	isParentLoaderPriority()
boolean	isServerClass(String clazz) Is the class a Server Class.
boolean	isSystemClass(String clazz) Is the class a System Class.
Resource	newResource(String urlOrPath) Convert a URL or path to a Resource.

Method Detail

newResource

Resource newResource(String urlOrPath)
                     throws 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:

IOException - The Resource could not be created.

getPermissions

PermissionCollection getPermissions()

Returns:

Returns the permissions.

isSystemClass

boolean isSystemClass(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(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

String getExtraClasspath()