title: WebSphere7 classloading Issues
body: <p>I am just wondering, if the below is possible with Websphere or not?</p>
  
  <p>I have an Enterprise application using Websphere 7 and with PARENT_LAST classloading mode. I am now trying to use a third party feature namely, gemfire in the application. My application with gemfire runs perfectly in PARENT_FIRST classloading mode. But, I can see some linkage errors occuring because of PARENT_LAST setting. Temperarly, I could solve them by removing the classes that are conflicting from gemfire jar(By this, I am actually asking those removed classes to be loaded from web app server). But, I am not sure if this will create some bigger issues as my appliaction grow to its fullest.</p>
  
  <p>My question is : Suppose we have abc.jar in both web app server and also in gemfire.jar, with PARENT_LAST loading mode.Is it possible to solve the above class conflicts by not removing any class files from jars, instead tell the classloading mechanism to use the class loaded from web app server at a particular case and use the same class loaded from gemfire jar(meaning load from application) at another case? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>