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Can I create a Class object without VM/Native?
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Robert Paris
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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I'm using BCEL and am wondering if there's a way to create a Class object straight from the byte-code. I generate byte-code of a class using BCEL (byte-code engineering language) but I can't call defineClass because it's already been called, but i want to pass a class object back. Is this possible?
What about if I serialize a Class object to a file, can I byte-code engineer that and then reinstantiate it?
[ February 13, 2003: Message edited by: Robert Paris ]
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Cindy Glass
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Joined: Sep 29, 2000
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Evein if you serialize an object of a Class, you are only getting the state of the object. The JVM will still look to load the class from a .class file.
If you try to grab the byte codes of a class after it is loaded into memory, even if you got it copied back into memory later it would not be registered with a classloader.
Course I know nothing about BCEL - so maybe they have some magic cooked up that I have never heard of  .
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