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Re: A query on the classloader architecture


From: Archie Cobbs
Subject: Re: A query on the classloader architecture
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:17:24 -0500 (CDT)

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> bootstrap loader in IKVM. To me this makes perfect sense and it would
> seem like the ideal solution, <rant>except for the fact that there is a
> lot of code out there that expects that this.getClass().getClassLoader()
> is not null. Most of the code is actually broken, because it simply

The Sun API spec clearly states that Class.getClassLoader() may return
null, and in fact MUST return null for primitive type Class objects.
So why worry about obviously buggy software?

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com




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