Re: A query on the classloader architecture

[Stuart Ballard]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> I'm sorry, but you lost me. I clearly don't understand what you mean.
> Can you please clarify your original statement (the one I quoted above)?

I think the point is that Sun's VM returns null for stuff that (in IKVM) 
comes from IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll, but not for anything else. In 
particular, Sun's VM will never return null for the classloader of any 
application code.

Perhaps a simple rule that might have the effect you want would be to 
use the null classloader for the following assemblies:
1) IKVM.Runtime.dll
2) IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll
3) IKVM.JNI.*.dll
4) Anything in the GAC

and a non-null classloader for everything else.

Am I right that assemblies in the GAC must never have references to 
other assemblies that aren't? And that IKVM-compiled Java assemblies are 
never suitable for GACing? If both these things are true, then no class 
in the set listed above can ever refer to any class outside that set 
(assuming the references of the IKVM assemblies are limited to each 
other and stuff in the GAC).

Stuart.

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