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25
26package java.rmi.server;
27
28import java.net.MalformedURLException;
29import java.net.URL;
30
31/**
32 * <code>LoaderHandler</code> is an interface used internally by the RMI
33 * runtime in previous implementation versions.  It should never be accessed
34 * by application code.
35 *
36 * @author  Ann Wollrath
37 * @since   1.1
38 *
39 * @deprecated no replacement
40 */
41@Deprecated
42public interface LoaderHandler {
43
44    /** package of system <code>LoaderHandler</code> implementation. */
45    final static String packagePrefix = "sun.rmi.server";
46
47    /**
48     * Loads a class from the location specified by the
49     * <code>java.rmi.server.codebase</code> property.
50     *
51     * @param  name the name of the class to load
52     * @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
53     * @exception MalformedURLException
54     *            if the system property <b>java.rmi.server.codebase</b>
55     *            contains an invalid URL
56     * @exception ClassNotFoundException
57     *            if a definition for the class could not
58     *            be found at the codebase location.
59     * @since 1.1
60     * @deprecated no replacement
61     */
62    @Deprecated
63    Class<?> loadClass(String name)
64        throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
65
66    /**
67     * Loads a class from a URL.
68     *
69     * @param codebase  the URL from which to load the class
70     * @param name      the name of the class to load
71     * @return the <code>Class</code> object representing the loaded class
72     * @exception MalformedURLException
73     *            if the <code>codebase</code> paramater
74     *            contains an invalid URL
75     * @exception ClassNotFoundException
76     *            if a definition for the class could not
77     *            be found at the specified URL
78     * @since 1.1
79     * @deprecated no replacement
80     */
81    @Deprecated
82    Class<?> loadClass(URL codebase, String name)
83        throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException;
84
85    /**
86     * Returns the security context of the given class loader.
87     *
88     * @param loader  a class loader from which to get the security context
89     * @return the security context
90     * @since 1.1
91     * @deprecated no replacement
92     */
93    @Deprecated
94    Object getSecurityContext(ClassLoader loader);
95}
96