[BEEHIVE-1209] Change ClassLoader.loadClass() to 3 arg version of Class.forName() for Java 6

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
• Fix Version/s: V.Next
• Component/s: Controls, NetUI
• Assignee: Howard Carlin Rogers
• Reporter: Howard Carlin Rogers
• Created: 06/Dec/07 22:11
• Updated: 06/Dec/07 23:48
• Resolved: 06/Dec/07 23:48

Description

With Java 6, the calls to ClassLoader.loadClass() for array types will fail with a ClassNotFoundException. Sun "highly" recommends that

classLoader.loadClass(className)

be replaced with

Class.forName(className, false, classLoader)

The issue is described in...
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6500212
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149

Basically, ClassLoader.loadClass() is fine for plain classes (which is most of the cases in Beehive that I looked at), not for arrays etc. However, based on the recommendation from Sun, I can go through the code and just make changes to use Class.forName()