Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether: > I don't mean to sound stupid, but if you don't have file ops, how do > you open the library which implements them?
FYI, in Java, the JVM consists of an execution engine and class loaders. There is a bootstrap (primordial) class loader - part of the VM. Other class loaders (user-defined ones, say for loading classes from a network) can be loaded by the bootstrap one (and then there's a parent-delegatoin model). The bootstrap class loader is responsible for loading the local class files of the core Java API, with other loaders then responsible for loading other user class files. (In older versions, the primordial class loader was also responsible for loading local user class files) Leon -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...............................http://www.nanoware.org/ ... Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch?
