Re: JDK 1.2 classloader bug!

I ran an earlier version of Jigsaw with JDK 1.2 by using the -noverify flag
and it seemed to work.

Francis

At 02:29 PM 1/20/99 +0100, Yves Lafon wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Wolfgang Platzer wrote:
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>> I think I encountered the NT JDK 1.2 classloader bug within my application.
>> Can someone point me to additional information or can tell me a workaround?
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>    // This is a nasty kludge due to a bug in jdk1.2 on NT
>    // this.cls = Class.forName(clsname, true,
>    //                          this.getClass().getClassLoader());
>    // works and not
>    // this.cls    = Class.forName(clsname);
>    // even if it is exactly the same thing :)
>    // and the creation of a new object is enough to make it run...
>   this.cls.newInstance();
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>In fact the culprit  is the native method
>ClassLoader.getCallerClassLoader(); 
>It doesn't work as this.getClass().getClassLoader();
>The workaround  ( this.cls.newInstance(); ) work for an unknown reason!
>(thanks to Thomas Kopp for this workaround that keeps jdk1.1
>compatibility)
>Regards,
>
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Received on Wednesday, 20 January 1999 13:19:22 UTC