Florian,

Don't think that the problem that we are facing in Drools6 is because the Class.forName on its own.

But the problem is from which bundle it is being called and where resides the class that it is trying to load...

Definitively one bundle CAN'T load classes that resides in another bundle, unless you specify a import of the package... That is why currently kie-api has an import to org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl

so the solution must be composed by two steps: Repackage some classes, so a class will be loaded by its own bundle and use services...

On 21/06/13 03:30, Florian Pirchner wrote:
Hi Mark,

i did some research. Indeed a very complex issue.
Tried to find out the difference about Class.forName(String) and Class.forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader). Both of them are delegating to native jvm methods and the difference seems to be in resolving the class and the way that caches work.

In http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6500212 they are pointing to use Class.forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader). Could find that method call in some drools and jbpm classes. For instance compiler...

But there are also a lot of Class.forName(String) calls too. Specialy in parts of code where no array-types come into play.
For instance JavaHandlerWorkItemHandler calls  (Class<JavaHandler>) Class.forName(className).

Maybe it would be a good idea to replace Class.forName() for issues that exclude array-types by classloader.loadClass().

WDYT?

Best Florian



Am 20.06.13 17:28, schrieb Mark Proctor:
There are bugs with loadClass and serialisation :(
http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/rules-dev/2011-November/003681.html

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6500212
"Thus, we highly recommend replacement of this code:
  myClassLoader.loadClass(className);

With this code:

  Class.forName(className,false,myClassLoader);"

Mark
On 20 Jun 2013, at 15:01, Florian Pirchner <florian.pirchner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

i also saw all the Class.forName. Class.forName additionally uses a very
aggressive class caching policy.
See here:
http://blog.osgi.org/2011/05/what-you-should-know-about-class.html
http://blog.bjhargrave.com/2007/09/classforname-caches-defined-class-in.html

I do not understand why API imports compiler.impl? Maybe to enable
class#forname i guess.


Is there an intention to use a more modularized way in v6 beta4 when
OSGi support will be implemented?

Thanks Florian


Am 20.06.13 15:43, schrieb Cristiano Gavião:
Hi,

Well, besides the fact that the services that we used on version 5.x is
still there, I'm not that optimist with Drools 6 running well in an OSGi
container... at least not currently...

Last week I played a bit too with Jbosgi and Wildfly and got a lot of
classloading errors due some factory classes trying to load classes that
are in another bundles...

what surprise me most was that kie-api has an import to
org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl ! :)

regards,

John
On 17/06/13 19:39, Florian.Pirchner wrote:
hi,

i got a question about osgi support.
is beta 3 already useable in osgi environments? could see that activators are registering v5 api as services.

is it possible to consume osgi services in the script tasks and rules by context? is this planned for version 6? would be a great feature.

thanks a lot for answer
florian
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