Is it possible to have the System ClassLoader load .class files specified at run time?

Question

I am writing a static analysis tool for an assignment, it analyses Java bytecode using the ASM library. One of the parts of ASM that we use requires (or at least, appears to

Answer 1

You can't, as far as I know, extend the System class loader at runtime, but you can dynamically load classes from an arbitrary location (jar or directory) using URLClassLoader.