Does anyone know how to programmaticly find out where the java classloader actually loads the class from?
I often work on large projects where the classpath gets very long and manual searching is not really an option. I recently had a problem where the classloader was loading an incorrect version of a class because it was on the classpath in two different places.
So how can I get the classloader to tell me where on disk the actual class file is coming from?
Edit: What about if the classloader actually fails to load the class due to a version mismatch (or something else), is there anyway we could find out what file its trying to read before it reads it?