Like many server applications, Tomcat installs a variety of class loaders (that is, classes that implement java.lang.ClassLoader) to allow different portions of the container, and the web ...

When you type java classfile, you are saying: start a JVM and load the named class into it. The Java class loader is the part of the JVM that loads classes into memory and makes them available for ...

It is also used by syntactic constructs like X.class class literals (see “Get a Load of That Name!” for more details). Thread context classloaders were introduced in Java 2 Platform, Standard ...