loadClass(String) vs loadClass(String, bool)

Sun Apr 17 11:48:00 GMT 2005

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Tom Tromey writes:
> > One question is whether we should have resolveClass() do anything
> > at all. It is a lame part of the API and perhaps the leeway given
> > to the implementation in terms of linking could be stretched to
> > cover this.
>> Maybe, but we'd risk breaking compatibility. All we can do is try to
> determine what others do -- and do te same thing!

On IKVM ClassLoader.resolveClass() is a no-op and based on experiments I
did when I was trying to understand class resolving I strongly suspect
that it's a no-op on the JDK too.
Regards,
Jeroen