Re: VMRuntime.insertSystemProperties(); java.ext.dirs

[Steven Augart]

David Holmes wrote:
[...]
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/extensions/index.html
[...]

> When the VM starts up it should create the extensions classloader, with the
> bootstrap loader as parent, then create the system/application class loader
> with the extensions loader as parent.
This is clearly the right thing to do.  Wow, yet another class loader 
for me to add to the stack.
> Also note that once you start playing this game the role of the context
> classloader for a thread becomes much more important :)

I assume that's for the applications programmers to worry about, no? 
Or are there particular gotchas for the VM?

> Hope this helps.

Yes, a lot.  Thanks for that reference.  A lot of information.  Java 
is even more complicated than I had feared.

I just closed a defect report about the properties Jikes RVM sets in 
VMRuntime.  I can see that I'm going to have to reopen it until I take 
care of user.timezone and java.ext.dirs properly.

--Steven Augart