Re: ClassLoader.findLoadedClass (was: ServiceFactory)

[Sascha Brawer]

Robert Lougher <address@hidden> wrote on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:
03:12 +0000:

>However, in the explicit case, the initiator has been lost --
>defineClass only has the defining loader, and we don't have an "add
>initiating loader" call for use when we unwind.  Even if findLoadedClass was
>native so it could use the VM class cache, the VM wouldn't know that, using
>your example, L1 initiated the load and would return null.

Does this mean that the API specification for ClassLoader.findLoadedClass
is incorrect? Or should it say that a VM may or may not record the fact that
some ClassLoader has initiated the loading of a class?

> protected final Class findLoadedClass(String name)
>
>   Returns the class with the given name if this loader has been recorded
>   by the Java virtual machine as an initiating loader of a class with
>   that name. Otherwise null is returned.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/
ClassLoader.html#findLoadedClass(java.lang.String)

-- Sascha

Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/