I have been told [1] that doing something like String.class.getClassLoader() is a good way to get a value that can specified as the parent of a custom class loader when my goal for the custom class loader is to exclude application-specific classes (e.g. from the classpath).
Is this the best way to accomplish that goal, and does the answer change in JDK 9 with jigsaw? I am skeptical because I don’t see any reason to believe that the class loader for any given JDK class is necessarily a complete class loader that knows about all JDK runtime classes. In fact, in JDK 8 it is clearly not the case because the extensions class loader is not included. Alan [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34101259/need-a-java-system-only-class-loader <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34101259/need-a-java-system-only-class-loader>
