[icedtea-web] RFC: Fix problem in resolving classes

[Jiri Vanek]

On 06/25/2012 10:11 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> IcedTea-Web currently has a bug where it can not resolve classes under
> certain situations. It can trigger when the following sequence of steps
> happen:
>
> 1. An applet with both a codebase and a jar (archive) is loaded
> 2. A class is loaded using the codebase loader
> 3. The class tries to load a class that is specified in the archive
>
> The following applet reproduces the problem:
>
> http://javadjvu.foxtrottechnologies.com/cgi-bin/djvuapplet.pl/examples/deer.djvu?zoom=page
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Omair
>
> ChangeLog:
>
> 2012-06-25  Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>
>
>    * netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/JNLPClassLoader.java
>    (findClass): Invoke CodeBaseClassLoader.findClass with a flag to
>    avoid infinite recursion.
>    (CodeBaseClassLoader.findClass(String)): Delegate to ...
>    (CodeBaseClassLoader.findClass(String,boolean)): New method.
>    *
> tests/netx/unit/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/CodeBaseClassLoaderTest.java
>    (testParentClassLoaderIsAskedForClasses): New method.

Looks more then good to me. One question - why is advantage to have recursive search by default 
false? To me give more sense to have it enabled by default....

Anyway, ook to head (and nice to have icedtea-web guru back for a while :)
   J.