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Jason,<BR>
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There was a bug raised on this with Sun, and it is as follows:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149">http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149</A><BR>
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They are actually not going to fix this, but instead want you to use what you describe below. We will have to change our code accordingly in AS 5 and anywhere else for that matter to support JDK 6.<BR>
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Andy<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 17:12 -0500, Jason T. Greene wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">FYI,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There is an undocumented system property (besides the jvm source) in JDK</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">5 and 6 called "sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax". The default</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">changed from true to false in JDK6. So what this means is that in JDK6,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">unless you set that property to true, if you try and load a Java array</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">type using a classloader (e.g. "[[B") you will get a CNFE.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The compatible solution is to either interpret array types directly (not</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hard), or to use the extended form of Class.forName(), which does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">understand the array syntax:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Class clazz = Class.forName(className, false, loader);</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCOMMON-25">http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCOMMON-25</A></FONT>
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Andrig (Andy) Miller<BR>
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