[platform-update-dev] Eclipse3.1M1 on .NET/linux - overriding plugin cla

[David Jung <jungdl@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm currently using SWT and wish to use Eclipse 3.1M1 in a non-Java
environment.
Currently, I've manually cross-compiled all the .class files within each
jar into .NET byte-codes (CLR IL codes).  
I keep the original jars around too, as some parts of the osgi like to
poke into them to look at plugin.xml etc. (having that fetched from a
resource in a .dll is for another day).  My own classes are written in C#.

I was wondering if someone knowledgable in how osgi and the startup
mechanism works would be able to give me some starting pointers as to
where I need to look to override .jar class loading.
Essentially, every time a .jar is about to be loaded, I'd want to first
cross-compile it to a .dll (and cache that) and load the .dll into memory
instead (hence getting all the classes at once).
In the environment I'm using (mono/ikvmc), using classLoad() only loads
the java byte codes directly and inteprets them (as in a typical java
machine) - which I want to avoid for performance reasons.

Currently, I've just pre-loaded .dlls that contain all the classes in all
the plugins I'm using (in an RCP setup).  That way loadClass() requests
don't trigger class loading as they're already loaded.  However, that
isn't much good for a long term solution (kind of defets the purpose of
'plugins').

Any help, pointers etc. would be greatly appreciated.  I've only just
started poking around in the sources this last week.

Thanks,
-David.

PS: I also posted this to the platform news-group