Reviewer and committer request for 7198496 (original) (raw)

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Thu Oct 4 09:19:35 UTC 2012

On Oct 4, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:

Sorry but that is just the dual incorrect statement of what is in getContextClassLoader. It is not a meaningful description, in fact it is incorrect because null only ever means the bootstrap loader, never the system class loader - and the null can't mean two different things. And what is "or failing that" supposed to mean? These parts of the javadoc for get/setContextClassLoader are simply wrong. They should be non-normative statements in the method description to give general guidance as to the interpretation of null.

If i had 10 service providers, for service interface MyIterface, in jars added on my class path and i had application code that did the following:

public static void main(String... args) throws Exception { Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(null); int i = 0; for (MyIterface mi : ServiceLoader.load(MyIterface.class)) { i++; } System.out.println(i); }

What do you think should be the result of executing the above?

Paul.

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