[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [9] RFR JDK-8160455 : KSS : class.forName issue in TIFFImageMetadata.java

[Philip Race]

That would not have worked anyway, would it ?
Class.forName(String) was searching using the bootstrap class loader.

It presumably also would not have worked when the plugin was
(in the past) loaded as a standard extension either.

-phil.

On 8/4/16, 9:01 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> That was the original intent of the design way back when, but it is 
> unknown as to whether anyone actually availed themselves of this 
> capability.
>
> Brian
>
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Sergey Bylokhov 
> <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com <mailto:Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible that TIFFTagSet will be extended by the user and 
>> passed via xml? In this case will we able to load the user's class 
>> via forName?
>
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