From: Eric M. Kascic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Esoteric class loading question/loading constraints/loader
constraints
Based upon my understanding of how the JVM tries to ensure
type safety across ClassLoaders, StandardClassLoader
loading the second version of class X should fail
Hi,
Your understanding is wrong: there can be one class X for each
classloader. Your practice of using multiple classes with the same
fully-qualified name in the same application is questionable, as it can
easily lead to human errors.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics
-Original
Hi Yoav,
Of course you are right (you always are ;-) about the way classloaders work.
However, I think Eric meant (and if he didn't, I do) that his class X is
in fact a single one, and he *needed* to copy the .class file into
common/... so that he could instantiate a new object of class X from
