困难的原因在于安全。类加载器是不可变的;您不应该在运行时随意地向它添加类。我很惊讶它能与系统类加载器一起工作。下面是如何创建你自己的子类加载器:

URLClassLoader child = new URLClassLoader(
        new URL[] {myJar.toURI().toURL()},
        this.getClass().getClassLoader()
);
Class classToLoad = Class.forName("com.MyClass", true, child);
Method method = classToLoad.getDeclaredMethod("myMethod");
Object instance = classToLoad.newInstance();
Object result = method.invoke(instance);

很痛苦，但事实就是这样。

我找到的最好的是org.apache.xbean.classloader.JarFileClassLoader，它是XBean项目的一部分。

下面是我过去使用的一个简短方法，用于从特定目录中的所有lib文件创建一个类装入器

public void initialize(String libDir) throws Exception {
    File dependencyDirectory = new File(libDir);
    File[] files = dependencyDirectory.listFiles();
    ArrayList<URL> urls = new ArrayList<URL>();
    for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        if (files[i].getName().endsWith(".jar")) {
        urls.add(files[i].toURL());
        //urls.add(files[i].toURI().toURL());
        }
    }
    classLoader = new JarFileClassLoader("Scheduler CL" + System.currentTimeMillis(), 
        urls.toArray(new URL[urls.size()]), 
        GFClassLoader.class.getClassLoader());
}

然后使用类加载器，只需执行:

classLoader.loadClass(name);

我需要在运行时为java 8和java 9+加载一个jar文件(上面的注释对这两个版本都不起作用)。下面是实现它的方法(如果相关的话，使用Spring Boot 1.5.2)。

public static synchronized void loadLibrary(java.io.File jar) {
    try {            
        java.net.URL url = jar.toURI().toURL();
        java.lang.reflect.Method method = java.net.URLClassLoader.class.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", new Class[]{java.net.URL.class});
        method.setAccessible(true); /*promote the method to public access*/
        method.invoke(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), new Object[]{url});
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot load library from jar file '" + jar.getAbsolutePath() + "'. Reason: " + ex.getMessage());
    }
}

我个人认为java.util.ServiceLoader做得很好。你可以在这里得到一个例子。

jodonnell提出的解决方案很好，但应该稍加改进。我用这篇文章成功地开发了我的应用程序。

分配当前线程

首先我们要加上

Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(classLoader);

否则你将无法加载资源(如spring/context.xml)存储到jar。

不包括

你的罐子放入父类装入器中，否则你将无法理解谁装入了什么。

请参见使用URLClassLoader重新加载jar的问题

然而，OSGi框架仍然是最好的方法。

下面是一个未弃用的版本。我修改了原始版本，删除了不推荐使用的功能。

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/*
 * Created on Oct 6, 2004
 */
package tools;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;

/**
 * Useful class for dynamically changing the classpath, adding classes during runtime. 
 */
public class ClasspathHacker {
    /**
     * Parameters of the method to add an URL to the System classes. 
     */
    private static final Class<?>[] parameters = new Class[]{URL.class};

    /**
     * Adds a file to the classpath.
     * @param s a String pointing to the file
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void addFile(String s) throws IOException {
        File f = new File(s);
        addFile(f);
    }

    /**
     * Adds a file to the classpath
     * @param f the file to be added
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void addFile(File f) throws IOException {
        addURL(f.toURI().toURL());
    }

    /**
     * Adds the content pointed by the URL to the classpath.
     * @param u the URL pointing to the content to be added
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void addURL(URL u) throws IOException {
        URLClassLoader sysloader = (URLClassLoader)ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
        Class<?> sysclass = URLClassLoader.class;
        try {
            Method method = sysclass.getDeclaredMethod("addURL",parameters);
            method.setAccessible(true);
            method.invoke(sysloader,new Object[]{ u }); 
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            t.printStackTrace();
            throw new IOException("Error, could not add URL to system classloader");
        }        
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, SecurityException, ClassNotFoundException, IllegalArgumentException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException{
        addFile("C:\\dynamicloading.jar");
        Constructor<?> cs = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().loadClass("test.DymamicLoadingTest").getConstructor(String.class);
        DymamicLoadingTest instance = (DymamicLoadingTest)cs.newInstance();
        instance.test();
    }
}