maven-classloader

Load Any Class In The (Mavenized) World

Given a Maven GAV, the Maven Classloader will resolve and download all dependencies from local and remote maven repositories.

This library utilizes Sonatype Aether, the library used by Maven to deal with repositories. Aether does all of the heavy lifting, this library aims to be a lightweight shim on top of it to help reduce the friction for a majority of potential uses.

Getting Started (Maven)

Until this is put into a maven repo, download source and build a .jar with Maven: mvn clean install

Add the following to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.bigfatgun</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-classloader</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Create a ClassLoader:

ClassLoader classLoader = MavenClassloader.forGAV("junit:junit:4.8.1");

You're done! Assuming you wanted the classloader for a reason, such as loading a class, you just use normal reflection:

Class<?> junitAssertClass = classLoader.loadClass("org.junit.Assert");