Andrew Haley wrote: > > There are areas where compliant jvms might behave differently. For > example, the exact time when dependent classes are loaded isn't defined. > Maybe at class initialization time, maybe later. All the the spec > requires is that ClassNotFoundExceptions aren't raised until classes > are referred to. So, it is possible that Eclipse requires some precise > semantics of class loading beyond what is strictly required by the > spec. Maybe compiled code loads classes earlier than interpreted > code, and maybe *the effective classpath has changed* by the time gij > tries to load org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin.
And, in turn, this means that potentially the same VM may behave differently in interpreted and compiled mode... Andrew. _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers

