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

[Brian Burkhalter]

Perhaps not. I can’t recall whether it was tested and I doubt that anyone tried to use it. The tag sets we provide by default are pretty comprehensive.

Brian

On Aug 4, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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