Unloading classes from VM?

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From: Myles Penlington
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00

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Is it possible to force a class file to be unloaded from the VM once it is no
longer used ?

We looking at writing a large application in JBuilder, but from our information
so far it appears that once a class file has been loaded by the VM it stays in
the cache - We were thinking of having every Form as a class files which is
then loaded on demand which is okay - but have not found anything to say if can
be unloaded. Only reason for this is memory constraints.

Has any body out there deployed a large Java app. Wondering what kind of
machines it is running on - e.g. Sun/P200/P133 etc.

Thanks.
Myles

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