A Java ClassLoader framework for cleaning up JVM singleton services.
The JVM is often used in situations where multiple distinct applications are deployed. Unfortunately, some features available to applications assume that there is only one application running. For example, Java provides a powerful protocol handling framework, but there is no way to use it in a per application manner. This project aims to provide a general framework for dealing with these problems and some solutions for particular problems.
This project deals with JVM level problems by providing a way to dynamically replace these frameworks in already compiled code. This makes the solution transparent to the JVM "fixes" being applied. All that the target application needs to do is load their applications classes through Chlorine and it will clean up the mess.
Java has a powerful protocol handling framework, but it is designed as a JVM wide singleton. When running in a shared environment, like a servlet container, this prevents applications from defining new protocols, since these protocols would bleed into other applications sharing the JVM. To make matters worse, you cannot use shielding class loaders to work around this, since only the system classloader can load classes from the java.* packages.
This project provides a set of static factory methods for creating java.net.URL instances and a class transformer that replaces calls to java.net.URL's constructor with these factory methods. This allows the URLStreamHandlerFactory to be isolated to a classloader, without requiring modification to the classes in the java.net package.
This project is not yet mature enough for use.
java -classpath asm.jar:asm-util.jar org.objectweb.asm.util.ASMifier java.lang.Runnable