At 04:34 21/1/01 -0800, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>The precise answer to what works depends on how your particular class
loader is
>implemented. My experience (although this classloading stuff is "black
magic" at
>times) is that URLClassLoader, which is what Tomcat 4.0 uses, follows the
process
>described in the javadocs for java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass():
Right - I wasn't talking about how the ClassLoader works but how
Class.forName() works. From experience I asuume that
Class.forName( "Foo" );
is equivelent to
Class.forName( "Foo", true, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() );
which seems to make more sens. If
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() is null then it gets it's
parent threads ContextClassLoader. If it reaches first thread then it uses
system classloader.
Cheers,
Pete
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