/**************************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) Jonas Bon�r, Alexandre Vasseur. All rights reserved. *
* http://aspectwerkz.codehaus.org *
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* The software in this package is published under the terms of the LGPL license *
* a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file. *
**************************************************************************************/
package org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.hook;
/**
* Implement to be the java.lang.ClassLoader pre processor. <p/>ProcessStarter calls once the no-arg constructor of the
* class implementing this interface and specified with the <code>-Daspectwerkz.classloader.clpreprocessor</code>
* option. It uses org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.hook.impl.ClassLoaderPreProcessorImpl by default, which is a ASM
* implementation (since 2004 10 20).
*
* @author <a href="mailto:alex@gnilux.com">Alexandre Vasseur </a>
* @see org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.hook.ProcessStarter
* @see org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.hook.impl.ClassLoaderPreProcessorImpl
*/
public interface ClassLoaderPreProcessor {
/**
* instruments the java.lang.ClassLoader bytecode
*/
public byte[] preProcess(byte[] b);
}