Re: Dynamic compilation fails with "cannot be resolved to a type"

From:
Lionel <lionelv_@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:31 +1000
Message-ID:
<48b2979c$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>
Lionel wrote:

Hi all,

I'm using EclipseCompiler (open to suggestions of alternatives, as long
as they are smaller as this is only 1.6MB) to compile source code that I
write at runtime I get the following error:

1. ERROR in \UserDefinedGentamicin.java (at line 2)
    public class UserDefinedGentamicin extends
tciworks.drugmodel.CommonDerivnFunction {
    
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
tciworks.drugmodel.CommonDerivnFunction cannot be resolved to a type


It appears I left out some critical information. My application is a JWS
app and it appears that classes are loaded differently in JWS.

If I do the following from a non-JWS app anywhere in the code:

class SomeClass extends ClassLoader {

     public SomeClass() {
     }

     @Override
     public Package[] getPackages() {
         return super.getPackages();
     }
}
SomeClass someClass = new SomeClass();
for (final Package pkg : someClass.getPackages()) {
     System.err.println("->" + pkg.getName());
}

I will see my application packages in amongst all the java ones. But if
I do it in the JWS app I only see the java packages.

So, anyone know how I solve this problem? How do I extend a class that I
have defined and compile it dynamically?

Thanks

Lionel.

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