The compiler first searches the Java platform packages (in rt.jar and other JAR files), which contain Java’s standard class library types (such as java.lang‘s System class). It then searches ...

Strangely enough, Java’s ClassLoaderobject throws in a twist. The object locates and loads class files into the JVM.

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