Re: [asm] asm and Weblogic classloading

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

jorg.heymans@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting asm to work for me in spring aop under 
> weblogic 8.1sp5. I've narrowed down the problem to a classloader issue (i 
> hope).
>
> More specifically, one of the ClassReader constructors does this:
>
>     public ClassReader(final String name) throws IOException {
>         this(ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(name.replace('.', '/')
>                 + ".class"));
>     }
>
> Now if my (recently acquired) knowledge of classloaders is correct, then the 
> use of the system classloader in getSystemResourceAsStream can never work 
> because the system classloader is parent of the application (WAR) 
> classloader. So, when a class inside my war asks the parent CL to find 
> another resource that is located in that very same WAR it will not find it.
>
> So my question is really if i'm supposed to do something special to get asm (2.2.3) to work for me under this environment? Has anybody reported similar issues? 
>   
 Nothing special. If I am not mistaken, that method had been removed in 
ASM 3. So, should not be using it, especially if it does not work for 
you. :-)

 regards,
 Eugene