RE: A query on the classloader architecture

[Jeroen Frijters]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> > bootstrap loader in IKVM. To me this makes perfect sense 
> > and it would seem like the ideal solution, <rant>except for
> > the fact that there is a lot of code out there that expects that 
> > this.getClass().getClassLoader() is not null. Most of the code
> > is actually broken, because it simply
> 
> The Sun API spec clearly states that Class.getClassLoader() may return
> null, and in fact MUST return null for primitive type Class objects.
> So why worry about obviously buggy software?

Because most software is buggy? If something runs on the Sun VM and it
doesn't run on my VM, do you think the user cares about who's bug it is?

Regards,
Jeroen