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Uses of Package
java.lang.instrument

Packages that use java.lang.instrument

java.lang.instrument

Provides services that allow Java programming language agents to instrument programs running on the JVM.

Classes in java.lang.instrument used by java.lang.instrument

ClassDefinition
This class serves as a parameter block to the Instrumentation.redefineClasses method.

ClassFileTransformer
An agent provides an implementation of this interface in order to transform class files.

ClassLoaderConfigurationError
Thrown by an implementation of Instrumentation.appendToBootstrapClassLoaderSearch(java.util.jar.JarFile) or Instrumentation.appendToSystemClassLoaderSearch(java.util.jar.JarFile) when a JAR file contains a class with the same name as a class already loaded by a class loader that is a descendent of the target loader.

IllegalClassFormatException
Thrown by an implementation of ClassFileTransformer.transform when its input parameters are invalid.

UnmodifiableClassException
Thrown by an implementation of Instrumentation.redefineClasses when one of the specified classes cannot be modified.