Chris Gray wrote: > > So.. (I hope this doesn't sound like an annoying question) what is the > > point of creating your "Java bootstrap classloader" ? Why not just let > > your primoridal native code class loader fill this role as well? Is all > > you're trying to do is prevent getClassLoader() from ever returning null? > > Some of us just like programming in Java. So the C classloader is as kept very > simple - for example it only looks in one file - while the Java bootstrap > class loader can be more complex. If we wanted for example to store only the > bare minimum (20 or so classes) on the device and load the rest using tftp, > all the code to do that would be in the Java part.
Thanks.. that makes sense. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
