>Sorry if I'm asking something obvious. It isn't obvious. I still don't really understand context class loaders myself. If I can find a good summary/tutorial, I'll post it or a pointer to it. I _think_ it's related to per-thread security settings, but don't take my word for it.
The important points for us seem to boil down to (a) if a context class loader can be retrieved, we should always search it first,, and (b) finding out whether it's available involves calls that weren't available in Java 1.1.8, so our attempts to retain back-level compatability force us to do this test via reflection. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
