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  1. jBPM
  2. JBPM-1976

Bad usage of ClassLoader.loadClass() under JDK 6

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Major
    • jBPM 3.2.7
    • jBPM 3.2.5 GA
    • Runtime Engine
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    Description

      Any class name provided as a String parameter to methods in ClassLoader must be a binary name as defined by the JLS (1). In particular, array syntax is not allowed, unless the system property sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax is set to true.

      Sun recommends (2) replacing
      myClassLoader.loadClass(className);
      with
      Class.forName(className,false,myClassLoader);

      The first form has plenty of occurrences in the jBPM codebase. No bug has come to my attention with respect to array class loading. Anyhow, it is worthwhile to fix any potential problem in advance as other JBoss projects have (3).

      (1) http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#name
      (2) http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6516909
      (3) https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBREM-659 * http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2990

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              tdiesler@redhat.com Thomas Diesler
              aguizar_jira Alejandro Guizar (Inactive)
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