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I haven’t been in Java for a good while. When did they do that? Static initializers used to load on Classloader calls.

• josefx 2y ago
  An overload for Class.forName with an explicit initialize parameter was added in Java 1.2 .
  • hinkley 2y ago
    Except they don't call Class.forName(..., false, ...) anywhere in the codebase, so my original comment still stands.