To be able to dump the classes of a Java program at runtime, we need to have access to them when they are being loaded. For this, we use the JNI (Java Native Interface) library, which provides us with ...

When you type java classfile, you are saying: start a JVM and load the named class into it. The Java class loader is the part of the JVM that loads classes into memory and makes them available for ...

It is also used by syntactic constructs like X.class class literals (see “Get a Load of That Name!” for more details). Thread context classloaders were introduced in Java 2 Platform, Standard ...