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25
26 package java.rmi.server;
27
28 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
29 import java.net.URL;
30
31 /**
32 * <code>LoaderHandler</code> is an interface used internally by the RMI
33 * runtime in previous implementation versions. It should never be accessed
34 * by application code.
35 *
36 * @author Ann Wollrath
37 * @since JDK1.1
38 *
39 * @deprecated no replacement
40 */
41 @Deprecated
42 public interface LoaderHandler {
43
44 /** package of system <code>LoaderHandler</code> implementation. */
45 final static String packagePrefix = "sun.rmi.server";
46
47 /**
48 * Loads a class from the location specified by the
49 * <code>java.rmi.server.codebase</code> property.
50 *
51 * @param name the name of the class to load
52 * @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
53 * @exception MalformedURLException
54 * if the system property <b>java.rmi.server.codebase</b>
55 * contains an invalid URL
56 * @exception ClassNotFoundException
57 * if a definition for the class could not
58 * be found at the codebase location.
59 * @since JDK1.1
60 * @deprecated no replacement
61 */
62 @Deprecated
63 Class<?> loadClass(String name)
64 throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
65
66 /**
67 * Loads a class from a URL.
68 *
69 * @param codebase the URL from which to load the class
70 * @param name the name of the class to load
71 * @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
72 * @exception MalformedURLException
73 * if the <code>codebase</code> paramater
74 * contains an invalid URL
75 * @exception ClassNotFoundException
76 * if a definition for the class could not
77 * be found at the specified URL
78 * @since JDK1.1
79 * @deprecated no replacement
80 */
81 @Deprecated
82 Class<?> loadClass(URL codebase, String name)
83 throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
84
85 /**
86 * Returns the security context of the given class loader.
87 *
88 * @param loader a class loader from which to get the security context
89 * @return the security context
90 * @since JDK1.1
91 * @deprecated no replacement
92 */
93 @Deprecated
94 Object getSecurityContext(ClassLoader loader);
95 }
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