Java: How to load Class stored as byte[] into the JVM?

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I’m actually using something like this right now in a test to give a set of Class definitions as byte[] to a ClassLoader:

  public static class ByteClassLoader extends URLClassLoader {
    private final Map<String, byte[]> extraClassDefs;

    public ByteClassLoader(URL[] urls, ClassLoader parent, Map<String, byte[]> extraClassDefs) {
      super(urls, parent);
      this.extraClassDefs = new HashMap<String, byte[]>(extraClassDefs);
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<?> findClass(final String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
      byte[] classBytes = this.extraClassDefs.remove(name);
      if (classBytes != null) {
        return defineClass(name, classBytes, 0, classBytes.length); 
      }
      return super.findClass(name);
    }

  }

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