Here's a quick look at the three types of class loaders and everything you need to know to work with them in your Java programs. Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM ...

I had battled class loading issues enough in the past to know they are one of the more tortuous parts of Java and can be a scary experience, but I am far from an expert on their intricacies.

Therefore, from the perspective of a web application, class or resource loading looks in the following repositories, in this order: Starting with Java 1.4 a copy of JAXP APIs and an XML parser are ...

However, application server vendors are free to design a proprietary class loading hierarchy for obtaining the classes and resources found in an application. A class loading hierarchy is typically ...