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The Java Extension Mechanism is described in the Java Tutorial as a “standard, scalable way to make custom APIs available to all applications running on the Java platform.” As described in Understanding Extension Class Loading, “the extension framework makes use of the class-loading delegation mechanism” with extension classes loaded after the bootstrap classes in rt.jar […]