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[QUOTE="Matthew Keene, post: 561309"]
Right, I think I understand.  So does this mean that if I create the
URLClassLoader with a null parent that the system will be forced to use
my class loader and will therefore inherit the classpath associated with
my class loader (in this case I would probably add the libraries from
the original class path into the new class loader).  Is there any reason
I'm not aware of that this would be a bad idea ?

I'm trying to write a framework that will allow for custom functionality
to be plugged in at various points of the processing.  Because I don't
know from the outset what the requirements of these plugins will be (and
because I don't directly have control of the system classpath - don't
ask) I'm trying to specify additional libraries in the config file which
defines the plugin and load them dynamically when I load the plugin.
Regex was just a simple example, in fact the most common example will be
JDBC drivers.

Thanks very much for your help so far.
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