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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:56:26 +0100
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Hi.

I am a superficial browser on this list and tend not to delve to deep 
into Java intricacies.  But when a term consistently shows up which I do 
not understand, I try to at least learn enough about it to be able to 
reassure my customers.

Classloader is now such a term.

I gather it is something that the JVM calls when it's missing a class, 
to go hunt it down along a logic all its own, and kind of bring it into 
service. I also gather that it's rather bad to get one's classloader 
confused by setting CLASSPATHs and the like. And I gather that you can 
either have your very own, or rely on Tomcat (?) to provide a standard 
one.  I haven't a clue however if this is something Tomcat-specific, 
Java-generic, or in-between.

Since I doubt that the above is all there is to say about it, could 
someone thus be as kind as to point me to an explanation/tutorial about 
classloaders ?

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