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Re: continued troubles migrating from 1.6.1
- To: "Paul R. Potts" <potts at umich dot edu>
- Subject: Re: continued troubles migrating from 1.6.1
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Date: 06 Jul 2000 18:02:06 -0700
- Cc: Kawa Mailing List <kawa at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <B58A9EAD.18C1D%potts@umich.edu>
"Paul R. Potts" <potts@umich.edu> writes:
> I'm not sure why the Java runtime searches for classes to load from the
> "top" of the classpath (the system libraries) rather than the "bottom" (the
> .jar file you're currently executing code from).
Unusual and confusing terminology. I talk about "front" (or "beginning")
and "back" (or "end") of a search path.
> It means you can't override system classes. Maybe that was the
> intent?
That could be the case, for security reasons, or to avoid something
accidentally getting broken by selecting non-working versions.
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