Is it possible to have the System ClassLoader load .class files specified at run time?
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 require) that the class be loaded from the ClassLoader. We were hoping the tool would be able to analyse .class files without requiring them on the classpath. We already load the .classes from a specified directory at run time and read them in using an InputStream. This is acceptable for ASM in most cases. There are some classes, such as SimpleVerifier , which attempt to load the classes though. Is it possible, under this