Nested plugins

[Paul Stanley]

Hi -

I have an application A that loads plugins (B). In turn B loads 'child plugins' (C). The problem I am facing is that the parent classloader for C is the system/app classloader. This doesn't work for me because C is dependent on classes loaded by B, so the parent classloader for C needs to be B.

App ----load----->    B   ------load-------> C

I've tried extending DefaultPluginManager, and overriding createPluginWrapper method whereby I call super.createPluginWrapper with a different classloader (whose parent is B), but it fails because the plugin is not created. 

Is there an official/better way to specify the parent classloader?

Regards,

Paul Stanley

[deceba...@gmail.com]

> In turn B loads 'child plugins' (C)

Is C a plugin or not? It's not clear for me what means "child plugin".

> This doesn't work for me because C is dependent on classes loaded by B,

In this case the B has a dependency to C.

>  The problem I am facing is that the parent classloader for C is the system/app classloader. 

How did you do that?