/*
* @(#)LoaderHandler.java 1.19 05/11/17
*
* Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
package java.rmi.server;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
/**
* <code>LoaderHandler</code> is an interface used internally by the RMI
* runtime in previous implementation versions. It should never be accessed
* by application code.
*
* @version 1.19, 11/17/05
* @author Ann Wollrath
* @since JDK1.1
*
* @deprecated no replacement
*/
@Deprecated
public interface LoaderHandler {
/** package of system <code>LoaderHandler</code> implementation. */
final static String packagePrefix = "sun.rmi.server";
/**
* Loads a class from the location specified by the
* <code>java.rmi.server.codebase</code> property.
*
* @param name the name of the class to load
* @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
* @exception MalformedURLException
* if the system property <b>java.rmi.server.codebase</b>
* contains an invalid URL
* @exception ClassNotFoundException
* if a definition for the class could not
* be found at the codebase location.
* @since JDK1.1
* @deprecated no replacement
*/
@Deprecated
Class<?> loadClass(String name)
throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
/**
* Loads a class from a URL.
*
* @param codebase the URL from which to load the class
* @param name the name of the class to load
* @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
* @exception MalformedURLException
* if the <code>codebase</code> paramater
* contains an invalid URL
* @exception ClassNotFoundException
* if a definition for the class could not
* be found at the specified URL
* @since JDK1.1
* @deprecated no replacement
*/
@Deprecated
Class<?> loadClass(URL codebase, String name)
throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
/**
* Returns the security context of the given class loader.
*
* @param loader a class loader from which to get the security context
* @return the security context
* @since JDK1.1
* @deprecated no replacement
*/
@Deprecated
Object getSecurityContext(ClassLoader loader);
}