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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
May. 01, 2000
Bjorn Carlson, Mtn. View, CA (US);
Milton Soong, San Jose, CA (US);
Santosh Hasani, Danville, CA (US);
Bjorn Carlson, Mtn. View, CA (US);
Milton Soong, San Jose, CA (US);
Santosh Hasani, Danville, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for enabling dynamic class reloading in an application server environment. A distinction is made between 'versionable' and 'non-versionable' classes. Versionable classes are classes that should be automatically reloaded when they are modified. The application server(s) may execute a background task that executes periodically to check for modified versionable classes. Users may specify class versionability by specifying a list of explicitly versionable classes, specifying a list of superclasses whose extending classes should be considered to be versionable, and specifying a list of interfaces whose implementing classes should be considered to be versionable. Once the background task discovers a modified versionable class, the background task may cause the class to be reloaded, e.g., by instantiating a new classloader and instructing the new classloader to reload the class. The background task may purge the reloaded class from any caches that the application server maintains.