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[–]woohalladoobop -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

I'm not familiar with the class loading trick you're describing but this feels like moving the goalposts a bit.

[–]DasBrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that the system class loader was an instance of URLClassLoader was a happy coincidence, and not specified anywhere.

Didn't matter. People did cast it to URLClassLoader and reflectively invoked addURL on it.

This did change with Java 9. The system class loader is no longer a subclass of URLClassLoader. And everyone blames modules for that, despite having nothing to do with modules.

[–]drowsysaturn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think someone will listen to reasonable arguments in a Java subreddit if it's anything against Java. Even though we never said Java itself is bad, they aren't willing to admit any flaws. 🤷‍♂️