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) ...

Q: When should I use Thread.getContextClassLoader() ? Why do thread context classloaders exist in the first place? They were introduced in J2SE without much fanfare. A certain lack of proper guidance ...

I have a class with a number of static inner classes. These inner classes have static data members, and I'd like to have all of these static data members get executed all at once, when the top-level ...