If you follow the Java 101 column, you know that we are currently touring Java’s object-oriented language basics.

Types of class loaders I’ve given an overview of the three main types of class loaders. In this section, we’ll go over each one in more detail. To start, take a look at this diagram of Java ...

In my previous article, I described how to use Java’s reference objects, SoftReference and WeakReference, to build weak references and mark blocks as reclaimable in a simple application.