Re: patch available: add option to allow RT/classForName to initialize the class

2008-10-26 Thread Bhaskar Maddala
> I was wondering if there is an argument against using initialize == > true in all cases? Here are a couple of examples, in the strictly java world (java programming language and vm) when you want initialize to be false. The idiomatic use case being byte code analysis * FindBugs * Code obfuscat

Re: patch available: add option to allow RT/classForName to initialize the class

2008-10-26 Thread Rich Hickey
On Oct 26, 11:18 am, "Stephen C. Gilardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RT/classForName currently hardwires the "initialize" option of > Class.forName to false. In working with jdbc drivers, the need to > initialize classes in some circumstances came up--in some JRE > configurations, the driver c