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On 2011-03-31 06.55, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> can someone explain me why Class#forName (actually the native method
> called by it) does block the loader of the class the requested class is
> defined in? Is that really needed?

I would assume that is so a class won't be loaded twice.

Cheers
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