And I think that we need to be robust in the face of either behavior. It should be fine to initialize once.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you are right in that JVMs are allowed to wait until first use > to load a class, but the one time I checked the Sun JVM it didn't work > that way. It actively loaded the class (which is also allowed). I > would bet dollars to donuts we'd find it doesn't wait. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve