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This method is not currently very useful because it is missing some basic functionality. 1. Ability to set a parent class loader. Currently it uses the system default loader, i.e. application classpath. Useless if you want to allow user-loaded classes access to special things - e.g. the Ant module in AntBridge.createUserClassLoader cannot currently use the standard method, since it needs to pass the Ant class loader as a parent. 2. Ability to define permissions properly. When using NbClassLoader, you have full control over permissions. The current CP.cCL always gives the loader AllPermissions, which is neither safe in many cases, nor powerful enough in others. You may need at least to: a. Give only standard applet-like permissions, to protect the VM against buggy or malicious user code. b. Give the specialized permissions created by ExecutionEngine.createPermissions(CodeSource,InputOutput) (*) which permit code loaded internally to run a user process which will have the correct I/O redirection and System.exit behavior regardless of which thread it is running in. Suggest therefore that you be able to pass in a PermissionCollection argument, or you may need to be asked to create a PC based on a given CS, similar to overriding SecureClassLoader.getPermissions(CS). Note that adding these extra arguments might mess up the cache param somehow - you don't want to get a cache hit created with a different parent and/or PC than you requested. Could perhaps continue to implement the cache, but doubly keyed - first by weak ref to ClassLoader, then by weak ref to PC or func:PC->CS or whatever it is. (*) EE.cP should IMHO be public, not protected - it is actually used as package private by NbClassLoader, which is simply a hack, and prevents non-NbCL impls of the class loader.
Note that NbClassLoader has a new constructor that permits these options.
old tagret milestone, please re-evaluate