RE: A query on the classloader architecture

[David Holmes]

> Archie Cobbs wrote:
> The Sun API spec clearly states that Class.getClassLoader() may return
> null, and in fact MUST return null for primitive type Class objects.
> So why worry about obviously buggy software?

There are only two cases where getClassLoader is allowed to return null:

a) it may return null for a bootstrap loader so represented; and
b) it must return null when invoked in the Class object for a primitive type
or void.

Consequently application code should have every right to assert that
"this.getClass().getClassLoader()" is never null.

David Holmes