RFR (M): JDK-8159262: Walking PackageEntry Export and ModuleEntry Reads Must Occur Only When Neccessary And Wait Until ClassLoader's Aliveness Determined

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Jun 23 10:59:01 UTC 2016


On 23/06/2016 11:55, David Holmes wrote:

>
> So then there are two "system" class loaders ??? I have not seen that 
> spelt out anywhere.
No, just one system class loader. It will almost always == application 
class loader. In rare cases then the system class loader will user 
supplied and configured via the java.system.class.loader property. This 
is all documented/specific in java.lang.ClassLoader.

-Alan


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