Name: sdR10048 Date: 12/04/2000


Javadoc for method
java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader.loadClass(String name)
says:

public static Class loadClass(String name)
                       throws MalformedURLException,
                              ClassNotFoundException

     Deprecated. replaced by loadClass(String,String) method

     Loads a class from the codebase URL path specified by the
     java.rmi.server.codebase property.
     Parameters:
         name - the name of the class to load
     Returns:
         the Class object representing the loaded class
     Throws:
         MalformedURLException - if the system property
             java.rmi.server.codebase contains an invalid URL
         ClassNotFoundException - if a definition for the class could
             not be found at the codebase location
     Since:
         JDK1.1
     See Also:
         loadClass(String,String)

but it does not specify method behaviour if java.rmi.server.codebase
property is unset (null). Yep, this is the doc incompleteness in
deprecated method, but docs for other methods: loadClass(String,
String), loadClass(URL, String), getClassLoader(String) have
references into it and relay on it.
See bellow:

public static Class loadClass(URL codebase,
                              String name)
                       throws MalformedURLException,
                              ClassNotFoundException

     Loads a class from a codebase URL. If the given codebase is null,
     then the Class object returned is equivalent to the Class object
     returned by RMIClassLoader.loadClass(name).
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     Parameters:
         codebase - the URL to load the class from
         name - the name of the class to load
     Returns:
         the Class object representing the loaded class
     Throws:
         MalformedURLException - if the codebase paramater contains an
                  invalid non-null URL
         ClassNotFoundException - if a definition for the class could
                  not be found at the specified URL
     Since:
         JDK1.1

public static ClassLoader getClassLoader(String codebase)
                                  throws MalformedURLException,
                                         SecurityException

     Returns a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase
     URL path. The class loader returned is the class loader that the
     #loadClass(String,String) method would use to load classes from
     the given codebase. If a class loader with the same codebase URL
     path already exists for RMI runtime, it will be returned;
     otherwise, a new class loader will be created. If the given
     codebase is null, it returns the class loader used to load
     classes via the #loadClass(String) method.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     Parameters:
         codebase - the list of space-separated URLs which the the
                 class loader will load classes from
     Returns:
         a class loader that loads classes from the given codebase URL
                 path
     Throws:
         MalformedURLException - if the codebase paramater contains an
                 invalid non-null URL
         SecurityException - if the caller does not have permission to
                 connect to all of the URLs in codebase
         URL path
     Since:
         1.3

Thus javadoc for this method should be completed or otherwise all
related methods should be updated accordingly since loadClass(String)
is deprecated.

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