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Lately my interest in ClassLoaders and in how they work has been growing. This has happened because I'm curious by nature always wanting to learn more about stuff I use, and because I've been quite interested in implementing a hot deploy feature. Initially I was thinking in writing a massive single post but I chose to divide it in two posts. This is the first one which is about the java virtual machine class loaders, what they are, how they work and how to customize them. The second post will about hot deploy, what is it, what class loaders have to do with it - actually I'll answer this question at the end of this post - how to achieve it and some actual java code doing the trick. Even though this will be an introduction to the subject - after all I'm just learning this new cool tricks - I hope it will be interesting to everyone.