>
> Is it possible to set the root of the classloader tree somehow? If so, HOW
> (I can't find an option to java)? And if you do that, do you make it simply
> impossible to ever call the primordial class loader again? (Even the VM
> itself should be using the system ClassLoader).
>
No, you cannot mess with the bootstrap/system/primordial classloader.
It is very much linked to the VM, and the probable truth is
that it probably doesn't even exist as a regular object.
Why doesn't somebody simply run java.lang.Thread.class.getClassLoader()
on 1.2RC1 and tell us what they see?
- Godmar