[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HHH-7272) Have ClassLoaderServiceImpl use Class.forName rather than ClassLoader.loadClass

Have ClassLoaderServiceImpl use Class.forName rather than ClassLoader.loadClass ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-7272 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7272 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 4.1.3 Time Spent: 41m Specifically, the publically available form of ClassLoader.loadClass does not invoke static initializers defined for the class (it does not perform any of the "loading, linking or initializing" phases outlined in the Java Language Spec. Class.forName does as long as the 'initialize' parameter is set to true.