Mandy, perhaps there is a JVM technicality here I'm unfamiliar with. My understanding of loading a class has always been that it's coupled with running its static initializers. So my inference was that the class does not get loaded into memory because the latter no longer occurs with --dry-run.
On Jul 11, 2016 9:41 PM, "Mandy Chung" <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 12, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > Mandy, can you please give a look to the first email in this thread and > see if you believe the enhanced message I suggested is helpful? I think it > would be. > > > > > > Your Suggestion: > "create VM but do not load mainclass or execute main method” > > The main class is loaded and your suggested text does not apply. What > enhanced message do you refer to? > > Mandy > >
