Well, as much as I hate to crosspost, this question only seemed to provoke confusion from the folks at the Java Developers Network Forum. Basically, after loading some class (which could of course reside on a remote machine, inside an archive, etc) through a ClassLoader object, I then need to retrieve the raw .class (format) data. The Class class appears to only provide indirect means to access the data, but what I really need is the entire .class file.
Any idea what API would accomplish this?