20.14

java.lang.ClassLoader

THE PACKAGE JAVA.LANG

20.14.4

protected final void resolveClass(Class c)

throws NullPointerException

This (misleadingly named) method may be used by a class loader to link ( 12.3,

 20.14.4) a class.

If

c

 is

null

, then a

NullPointerException

 is thrown.

If the

Class

 object

c

 has already been linked, then this method simply

returns.

Otherwise, the class is linked as described in  12.3.

20.14.5

protected final Class findSystemClass(String name)

throws ClassNotFoundException

This method may be used by a class loader to locate a class that has no class

loader. This includes built in classes such as

java.lang.Object

, as well as

classes that the host implementation may keep in, for example, a local file system.

Given the

name

 of a class, this method, like the

loadClass

 method, either

returns the

Class

 object for the class or throws a

ClassNotFoundException

.

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