Q1. What is a class loader ? What are the different class loaders used by JVM ?
Ans. Part of JVM which is used to load classes and interfaces.
Bootstrap , Extension and System are the class loaders used by JVM.
Q2. Difference between loadClass and Class.forName ?
Ans. loadClass only loads the class but doesn't initialize the object whereas Class.forName initialize the object after loading it.
Q3. What are various types of Class loaders used by JVM ?
Ans. Bootstrap - Loads JDK internal classes, java.* packages.
Extensions - Loads jar files from JDK extensions directory - usually lib/ext directory of the JRE
System - Loads classes from system classpath.
Q4. How are classes loaded by JVM ?
Ans. Class loaders are hierarchical. The very first class is specially loaded with the help of static main() method declared in your class. All the subsequently loaded classes are loaded by the classes, which are already loaded and running.
Q5. Difference between static vs. dynamic class loading?
Ans. static loading - Classes are statically loaded with Java’s “new” operator.
dynamic class loading - Dynamic loading is a technique for programmatically invoking the functions of a class loader at run time.
Class.forName (Test className);