How does classloading work with multiple child layers?

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Apr 15 15:47:17 UTC 2020


On 15/04/2020 12:45, Alex Sviridov wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>   
> Thank you very much for such detailed answer! Only one note — is the following
> paragraph right?
>    «When Child2 is created it will create L2 and map moduleC to L2. When
> code in moduleC tried to resolve a reference to a class in its own
> module then it will be loaded by L1 (POINT X) (no delegation). When moduleC
> references a b.* class then it will be delegate to L2 (POINT Y) to resolve the
> reference. When moduleC references a class in java.base then L1 will
> delegate to the boot loader.»
>   
> Maybe  POINT X = L2 and  POINT Y = L1 ???
>
Sorry about, I don't know how they got transposed.

In any case, I hope it is clearer how these class loaders delegate.

-Alan




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