What do people use class loading for?

Question

So, every Java text book talks about how flexible Java is since it can load classes at run time. Just cobble together a string and give it to Class.forName(), and

Answer 1

Application Servers rely also heavily on ClassLoaders to isolate the different deployed module. E.g.

• you can deploy the same web app twice under different path
• two applications can depend on two different version of the same library without conflict.

Thanks to the magic of class loaders...