Github user aljoscha commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4554 The system class loader stuff was leftover from an earlier version, I didn't mean to have that in there. In the first version I copied the `ChildFirstClassLoader` from https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/fa11845b926f8371e9cee47775ca0e48176b686e/flink-contrib/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDbMultiClassLoaderTest.java#L78. However, when I added the end-to-end tests I noticed that Akka was not working correctly anymore because it couldn't find some configuration stuff. (I'm running that again so that I can post the actual error messages) I also changed the class loader code on the client because I thought people might be just as likely to use their clashing dependencies there as in operators. In that case they would suffer from the same problems. We're, after all, also creating a user-code class loader here. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though.
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