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Re: dealing with ClassLoaders...

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From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Subject	Re: dealing with ClassLoaders...
Date	Fri, 1 Aug 2014 16:06:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Silvio <silvio@internet.com> wrote:
> On 08/01/2014 01:31 PM, Silvio wrote:
>> On 07/31/2014 09:40 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>> Is there a clean way to keep classes of a given package confined
>>> to some custom classloader, in order to control the classes' and
>>> their statics' scope/lifetime?
>>
>> Get rid of the static data. By definition static data limits how classes
>> can be used. Just to get around using a context reference is not worth
>> opening the can of worms they introduce. Threadlocals should only be
>> used if all else fails which is usually the case when you have to write
>> callback code that is called by a third party library that you can not
>> modify to have it pass along context.
> I mean the can of worms class loaders introduce.

I agree on the ideal, but it'll take some time until arrive there...

Thanks for the answer!

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dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-07-31 19:40 +0000
  Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-07-31 20:44 +0000
    Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-01 14:22 +0000
      Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-01 21:10 +0000
        Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-01 17:32 -0400
          Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-08-02 01:21 +0200
          Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-02 00:00 +0000
        Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-08-01 21:45 +0000
          Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-01 23:14 +0000
            Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-08-02 00:35 +0000
              Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-05 15:38 +0000
  Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-08-01 13:31 +0200
    Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-08-01 13:37 +0200
      Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-01 16:06 +0000
  Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-01 13:19 +0100
    Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-01 15:51 +0000
  Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-01 15:55 +0200
    Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-04 15:12 +0000
      Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-04 19:53 -0500
        Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-05 15:16 +0000
      Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-08 11:53 +0200
        Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-08 18:46 +0000
          Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-10 13:22 +0200
            Re: dealing with ClassLoaders... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-12 17:16 +0000

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