java 加载类失败,Java中何时动态加载引用不存在的类/方法的类失败?

Suppose I dynamically load a Java class C, that references non-existent class/methods. Such a case might occur when C was written for a newer version of Java. When will it fail - as soon as C is loaded, or when a method that calls a non-existent class/method is run? Does this change with the VM - including other versions of Java, such as Java ME?

解决方案

When will it fail?

as soon as C is loaded?

No. Only if when loaded it makes reference to the non existing class ( ie. you have a class attribute of that type )

or when a method that calls a non-existant class/method is run?

Yes. This will be the case.

For instance this runs well.

C:\>more > A.java

class A {}

^C

C:\>more > B.java

class B {

public void method() {

A a = new A();

}

public void other() {

System.out.println("Hello there");

}

public static void main( String ... args ) {

B b = new B();

b.other();

}

}

C:\>javac A.java B.java

C:\>erase A.class

C:\>java B

Hello there

The class B is loaded by java but since none of the code used method it works well.

As opposed to:

C:\>more > A.java

class A {}

C:\>more > B.java

class B {

void method() {

A a = new A();

}

public static void main( String ... args ) {

B b = new B();

b.method();

}

}

^C

C:\>javac A.java B.java

C:\>erase A.class

C:\>java B

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: A

at B.method(B.java:3)

at B.main(B.java:7)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: A

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

... 2 more

Fails because B attempted to access A.