Assaf Arkin wrote:
>
> getContextClassLoader() is a way for someone up the heirarchy to let
> someone down the heirarchy know which class loader to use.
>
> For example, if I have a Servlet container and my Serlvet is running in
> a special class loader X (for implementing reloading), and the Servlet
> calls some external library (in the App or Ext class loaders), and that
> external library has to load and initialize one of the classes in the
> Servlet JAR, the only way to make that magic work is using the context
> class loader.
>
> I have no clue, though, why it would be needed in SAXParserFactory.
> Typically javax.xml.parsers would be running in the system class loaded,
> and the parser should be running either there or in the application
> class loader.
>
> I don't know of any application where I would want to create a parser
> from my Serlvet where the parser code is coming from the Servlet class
> loader. Especially if it breaks 1.1 compatibility.
+1 ... removed...
Pier
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