ClassUnloading option

[Ion Ionascu]

Hi,


Could you please explain how the option ClassUnloading actually works? I
found it being mentioned on the internet, but I haven't been able to find
too much documentation about it.

In fact I am curious how class-unloading works from JVM/GC's point of view.
I am asking this because as far I can see the ClassLoader class has a
private property *classes* which stores a reference to each loaded class so
a class should not be unloaded (garbage collected) without its classloader
being gc-ed first. So, a property like ClassUnloading should only allow the
unloading of classes which are no longer referenced by their classloader.


Thank you,
Ion Ionascu

www.ionionascu.eu
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