Can Thread.getContextClassLoader() be null ? The javadoc is not really clear. Should a library take this case into account ? Update: the reason I asked is that beansbinding.dev.java.net dus not work in this case (and my code does setContextClassLoader(null) ...
One and only one of my hundreds of users has trouble starting my Java desktop app. It only starts for him about one-third of the time. The other two-thirds of the time a NullPointerException is thrown at startup: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:394) ...
I've written a custom classloader 'JarClassLoader', which itself works ok, since the following test case is green: public void testJarClassLoader() throws Exception { JarClassLoader cl = new JarClassLoader(); cl.addURLsByClassPath("lib/a-lot-of-jars.jar|lib/more-jars.jar", "\\|"); Class c = cl.loadClass("com.packagepath.cla...
The classes: public interface Inter { ...some methods... } public class Impl implements Inter { ...some implementations... } The issue is that for some freaky reason, I have to load the interface Inter with child ClassLoader and the implementation class Impl with parent ClassLoader. In this case I will get NoClassDefError, becau...