[GROOVY-1301] Refactor GCL to allow greater extensibility by sub classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-5
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
• Component/s: class generator
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 01/May/06 05:47
• Updated: 06/Jun/06 10:10
• Resolved: 06/Jun/06 10:10

Description

In grails we want to implement a mechanism that allows the addition of properties at compilation time, thus allowing an even more concise syntax for GORM (see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-139)

but currently the dangers in this are too great as the GroovyClassLoader is not extensible enough and needs to be refactored to allow sub-classes to override the necessary methods to provide said functionality.