> -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > According to this document, bootstrap.jar contains the basic > runtime classes > provided by the Java Virtual Machine. That does not seem > correct. In Sun's > JDK, rt.jar contains most of the basic runtime classes. How > does that get > loaded? Does the VM take care of this on it's own somehow?
If you are referring to the chicken-and-egg problem of the classloader loading itself, it's because the JVM contains what it needs to load itself internally. Edmund --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
