XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Also, is there good reason for saying that two objects loaded by 
> different class loaders are not equal when they might otherwise be? 
> For instance, can Element objects loaded from two different class 
> loaders access each others private parts or not?

No, they can't (they could in 1.0, IIRC, but that was a bug).  Classes
loaded by different class loaders have different Class objects and are
in every sense different: the primary key of a class is the pair
(class loader, class name).  It only really matters when you are trying to
do the Singleton pattern, and class loaders wind up giving you Multipletons.

> I hate class loaders!

"They too have their place."

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