--- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java Thu May 12 16:33:37 2016 +0100
+++ b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java Thu May 12 11:16:56 2016 -0700
@@ -603,12 +603,12 @@
* Class.forName(desc.getName(), false, loader)
* </pre>
* where <code>loader</code> is determined as follows: if there is a
- * method on the current thread's stack whose declaring class was
- * defined by a user-defined class loader (and was not a generated to
- * implement reflective invocations), then <code>loader</code> is class
- * loader corresponding to the closest such method to the currently
- * executing frame; otherwise, <code>loader</code> is
- * <code>null</code>. If this call results in a
+ * method on the current thread's stack whose declaring class is not a
+ * <a href="../lang/ClassLoader.html#builtinLoaders">
+ * <em>platform class</em></a>, then <code>loader</code> is
+ * the class loader of such class; otherwise, <code>loader</code>
+ * is the {@linkplain ClassLoader#getPlatformClassLoader()
+ * platform class loader}. If this call results in a
* <code>ClassNotFoundException</code> and the name of the passed
* <code>ObjectStreamClass</code> instance is the Java language keyword
* for a primitive type or void, then the <code>Class</code> object
@@ -666,12 +666,15 @@
* <pre>
* Class.forName(i, false, loader)
* </pre>
- * where <code>loader</code> is that of the first non-<code>null</code>
- * class loader up the execution stack, or <code>null</code> if no
- * non-<code>null</code> class loaders are on the stack (the same class
- * loader choice used by the <code>resolveClass</code> method). Unless any
- * of the resolved interfaces are non-public, this same value of
- * <code>loader</code> is also the class loader passed to
+ * where <code>loader</code> is determined as follows: if there is a
+ * method on the current thread's stack whose declaring class is not a
+ * <a href="../lang/ClassLoader.html#builtinLoaders">
+ * <em>platform class</em></a>, then <code>loader</code> is
+ * the class loader of such class; otherwise, <code>loader</code>
+ * is the {@linkplain ClassLoader#getPlatformClassLoader()
+ * platform class loader}.
+ * Unless any of the resolved interfaces are non-public, this same value
+ * of <code>loader</code> is also the class loader passed to
* <code>Proxy.getProxyClass</code>; if non-public interfaces are present,
* their class loader is passed instead (if more than one non-public
* interface class loader is encountered, an
@@ -2154,10 +2157,11 @@
int ndoubles);
/**
- * Returns the first non-null class loader (not counting class loaders of
- * generated reflection implementation classes) up the execution stack, or
- * null if only code from the null class loader is on the stack. This
- * method is also called via reflection by the following RMI-IIOP class:
+ * Returns the first non-null and non-platform class loader
+ * (not counting class loaders of generated reflection implementation classes)
+ * up the execution stack, or null if only code from the bootstrap and
+ * platform class loader is on the stack.
+ * This method is also called via reflection by the following RMI-IIOP class:
*
* com.sun.corba.se.internal.util.JDKClassLoader
*