How do you handle *consuming* java libraries that use Class.forName?

Ruby JRuby
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Hi All,

Google has shown me several workarounds for not using Class.forName, but
I
just spent a day and a half figuring out that the reason a java library
I
was consuming fails under JRuby but works fine with a similar java test
program is that it makes a call to
org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor’s getClassForName(String
name)
method:

protected Class<?> getClassForName(String name)

throwsClassNotFoundException {

    return Class.forName(name);

}

In JRuby, this causes a ClassNotFoundException which baffled myself and
the
titan and cassandra user groups for a while (because it’s working for
everyone else, but everyone else is consuming it through a plain old
java
program). What do you guys do in situations like this? Monkey-patch
org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor? Is that easy to
do/possible?

Thanks!

Mark