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From: "Andy Malakov" <andy@transdecisions.com>
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Subject: Re: Initialization of classes in Metadatamanager
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:57:49 -0500
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"I think the second argument true is causing java to do a test initialization of the 0 arg constructor"
What do you mean? JVM certainly will NOT call any constructors during class initialization unless your class does it in own static
initializers.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gus Heck" <gus.heck@olin.edu>
To: "OJB Developers List" <ojb-dev@db.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: Initialization of classes in Metadatamanager


> It seems that in the process of loading MetadataManager each persistant
> class is loaded with a class.forName(classname, true,
> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()). (in
> org.apache.ojb.broker.util.ClassHelper) I think the second argument true
> is causing java to do a test initialization of the 0 arg constructor. Is
> this neccessary? I am getting the following stack trace when I tried to
> have a persistent class grab an ID from a static instance of my own
> IDManager class. The result was an NPE in the *constructor* of my class
> which really shouldn't be called until I actually instantiate an
> instance. Since IdManager is itself persistant I can't set this value at
> class initialization for the same reason....
>
> Does passing true to class.forName have an important benefit that I am
> not aware of?
>
> Gus
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
>         at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.util.ClassHelper.getClass(ClassHelper.java:21)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.util.ClassHelper.getClass(ClassHelper.java:89)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.RepositoryXmlHandler.startElement(RepositoryXmlHandler.java:235)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1637)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1926)
>         at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.externalParsedEntity(Parser2.java:2984)
>         at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.expandEntityInContent(Parser2.java:2702)
>         at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeReferenceInContent(Parser2.java:2569)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1980)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1654)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:634)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:333)
>         at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:448)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.RepositoryPersistor.readMetadataFromXML(RepositoryPersistor.java:343)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.RepositoryPersistor.buildRepository(RepositoryPersistor.java:300)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.RepositoryPersistor.readDescriptorRepository(RepositoryPersistor.java:215)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.MetadataManager.init(MetadataManager.java:133)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.MetadataManager.<init>(MetadataManager.java:123)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.MetadataManager.<clinit>(MetadataManager.java:112)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryBaseImpl.getDefaultKey(PersistenceBrokerFactoryBaseImpl.java:114)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryBaseImpl.defaultPersistenceBroker(PersistenceBrokerFactoryBaseImpl.java:196)
>         at
> org.apache.ojb.broker.PersistenceBrokerFactory.defaultPersistenceBroker(PersistenceBrokerFactory.java:104)
>         at
> org.cs101.fdb.impl.jdo.PersistenceHelper.getDirectDBCon(PersistenceHelper.java:145)
>         at
> org.cs101.fdb.impl.jdo.PersistenceHelper.<clinit>(PersistenceHelper.java:74)
>         at org.cs101.fdb.test.DbTestCase.<clinit>(DbTestCase.java:36)
>         at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.<init>(JUnitTestRunner.java:237)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.<init>(JUnitTestRunner.java:210)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.main(JUnitTestRunner.java:520)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.cs101.fdb.impl.jdo.PersonBase.<init>(PersonBase.java:87)
>         at org.cs101.fdb.impl.jdo.PersonBase.<clinit>(PersonBase.java)
>         ... 32 more
>
>
>
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