Loading an external Jar file in a Spring application

[Peter Braun]

Hi!

I have a Spring based simple JavaSE application packed into a jar file with spring configuration xml in the META-INF. A main method starts the application. Everything works fine, but I run into a problem:
I have to use an external Jar file(s) which names are not predefined and I have to access them runtime.
I don't know how could I solve this. Maybe I should do class loading manually, or something, but I have never done such thing before.

I'd appreciate any recommendation or idea if you have any experience with such things?


Thanks in advance,
Peter