I desperately needed to find a way to change the java.library.path at runtime, which is technically forbidden. I finally stumbled upon this beautiful ugly hack

I desperately needed to find a way to change the java.library.path at runtime, which is technically forbidden. I finally stumbled upon this beautiful ugly hack (it opens up Sun's non-public class and hacks it via reflection): http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=707176 http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=707176 It even works on Mac OS X.