Order of class loading from a .war file
问题 I've got a question regarding the guarantees, if any, in the following scenario (note that the question is not "How to do this in a different way?" , the question is really about class loading order in the following case (to better understand how class loading works). Here's the hypothetical scenario... There's a .war file that has the following (partial) directory structure: WEB-INF/classes/com/acme/Bunny.class . . . WEB-INF/lib/acme.jar Both Bunny.class files have import referencing other