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

I created my own ClassLoader its quite simple.

 /**
 * Used to hold the bytecode for the class to be loaded.
 */
private final static ThreadLocal BYTE_CODE = new ThreadLocal();

@Override
protected Class findClass(final String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    final byte[] bytes = BYTE_CODE.get();
    if (null == bytes) {
        throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
    }
    return this.defineClass(null, bytes, 0, bytes.length);
}