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1 /* Copyright (C) 2003 Vladimir Roubtsov. All rights reserved.
2  *
3  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under
4  * the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
5  * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
6  *
7  * $Id: ClassLoadContext.java,v 1.1.1.1 2004/05/09 16:57:52 vlad_r Exp $
8  */
9 package com.vladium.util;
10
11 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
12 /**
13  * Information context for {@link IClassLoadStrategy#getClassLoader(ClassLoadContext)}.
14  *
15  * @author Vlad Roubtsov, (C) 2003
16  */
17 public
18 class ClassLoadContext
19 {
20     // public: ................................................................
21
22     
23     /**
24      * Returns the class representing the caller of {@link ClassLoaderResolver}
25      * API. Can be used to retrieve the caller's classloader etc (which may be
26      * different from the ClassLoaderResolver's own classloader) ['null' if caller
27      * resolver could be instantiated due to security restrictions].
28      */
29     public final Class JavaDoc getCallerClass ()
30     {
31         return m_caller;
32     }
33     
34     // protected: .............................................................
35
36     // package: ...............................................................
37
38     
39     /**
40      * This constructor is package-private to restrict instantiation to
41      * {@link ClassLoaderResolver} only.
42      *
43      * @param caller [can be null]
44      */
45     ClassLoadContext (final Class JavaDoc caller)
46     {
47         m_caller = caller;
48     }
49     
50     // private: ...............................................................
51
52
53     private final Class JavaDoc m_caller;
54
55 } // end of class
56 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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