Re: [Rails-devel] New ClassLoader

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> > Just a question: does this also allow reading from the Rails.jar?
> >  
> 
> 
> Yes, it does.  Over the last week, I've had a bit of a crash course in
> how Java locates data.
> 
> The whole idea is that Java wants you to avoid using anything specific
> to the underlying machine until the last possible moment. So, 
> everything
> that requires data from external resources (i.e. data files, images,
> etc.) needs to use a class loader to search for those resources. It's
> the class loader's job to figure out what resources are available, and
> where they are using generic path identifiers.
 
Well, there you're ahead of me then. I've had similar problems
every now and then. Great that you have fixed that now.


Erik.