Jar hell: how to use a classloader to replace one jar library version with another at runtime?

You need to load both Library1 and Library2 in separate URLClassloaders. (In your current code, Library2 is loaded in a URLClassloader whose parent is the main classloader - which has already loaded Library1.).

Trying to get rid of classpath lib2 and invoke the bar() method by reflection.

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