[Nicholas Jordan]

I am about to try this code in the project, it looks like my regex pattern was not bad, but I need to get some additional details while I am doing my trials:

Code:

// Without the call to getResource, you have only a classname with package, not a path

I have never seen this before, do not know where to start so as to know what to ask. classname and package and file directories seem somewhat interchangable. There is some preliminary and fundamental Intro to cs 101 that I have not been given on what this is and what is going on. IOW - how this works in the overall. Possibly I might ask what exactly is it that getResource is returning.

I managed to discover yesterday that a class is basically an ordered stream of bytes. A file can be defined that way also. When we get resource, what are we getting? ( here, in the context of this post and what we are working on )

Also, does the prepended / have anything to do with file:/// ( three slashes ) being displayed in the browser?

Code:

// and the spaces must be removed, or they would attempt to be matched.

Huh?.... ( iow what spaces where? )

Rest of it is basically as expected, some details were skipped so that we could move forward.

message_edit: except for a few diagnostics I understood I only have one error to resolve:

Code:

symbol: method getClassLoader()
location: class kitty.Arachnida
        ClassLoader ToadieTheRoadie = this.getClassLoader();