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package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.utils;
/**
 * This class is extremely useful for loading classes in a fault
 * tolerant manner that works across different applications servers. Do not
 * touch this unless you're a grizzled classloading guru veteran who is going to
 * verify any change on 6 different application servers.
 */
final class ClassLoaderUtils {
    private static final com.sun.org.slf4j.internal.Logger LOG =
        com.sun.org.slf4j.internal.LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClassLoaderUtils.class);
    private ClassLoaderUtils() {
    }
    /**
     * Load a class with a given name. <p></p> It will try to load the class in the
     * following order:
     * <ul>
     * <li>From Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
     * <li>Using the basic Class.forName()
     * <li>From ClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader()
     * <li>From the callingClass.getClassLoader()
     * </ul>
     *
     * @param className The name of the class to load
     * @param callingClass The Class object of the calling object
     * @throws ClassNotFoundException If the class cannot be found anywhere.
     */
    static Class<?> loadClass(String className, Class<?> callingClass)
        throws ClassNotFoundException {
        try {
            ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
            if (cl != null) {
                return cl.loadClass(className);
            }
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
            //ignore
        }
        return loadClass2(className, callingClass);
    }
    private static Class<?> loadClass2(String className, Class<?> callingClass)
        throws ClassNotFoundException {
        try {
            return Class.forName(className);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
            try {
                if (ClassLoaderUtils.class.getClassLoader() != null) {
                    return ClassLoaderUtils.class.getClassLoader().loadClass(className);
                }
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException exc) {
                if (callingClass != null && callingClass.getClassLoader() != null) {
                    return callingClass.getClassLoader().loadClass(className);
                }
            }
            LOG.debug(ex.getMessage(), ex);
            throw ex;
        }
    }
}
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