remote jars in the classpath
Sorry, maybe this question is too silly or already answered, but I couldn't find it out. I'm wondering if there is some known Java class-loader that is able to accept remote files in the classpath, i.e., entries like CLASSPATH="http://somewhere.net/library.jar:...". Note that I am not talking about applets or Java Web Start. Think of an application that can use different back-ends (e.g., MySQL, Oracle), I'd like to prepare the classpath in a shell script, based on the user's back-end preference and have the class-loader to download the needed jar (the jdbc driver in this example) from a