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October 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
hi there,
what happens if the JVM applet engine uses different classloaders to load the classes ? there will be 2 different instances of the classes, right ?
BR,
~A
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
As far as I know both IE & Firefox loads the applets using the same classloader.
With different classloaders, yes.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
with the new jre (update 10) is it possible to run different applets in another classloader => statics won’t work anymore