Class.forName与ClassLoader的区别

@CallerSensitive
public static Class<?> forName(String className)
            throws ClassNotFoundException {
    Class<?> caller = Reflection.getCallerClass();
    return forName0(className, true, ClassLoader.getClassLoader(caller), caller);
}

BootstrapClassLoader
ExtClassLoader
AppClassLoader
而在ClassLoader源码中，主要是这 三种类加载器通过类的路径来加载该类生成二进制字节流放入JVM中 。

/*
     * The class loader used for loading installed extensions.
     */
    static class ExtClassLoader extends URLClassLoader {
 
        static {
            ClassLoader.registerAsParallelCapable();
        }
 
        /**
         * create an ExtClassLoader. The ExtClassLoader is created
         * within a context that limits which files it can read
         */
        public static ExtClassLoader getExtClassLoader() throws IOException
        {
            final File[] dirs = getExtDirs();
 
            try {
                // Prior implementations of this doPrivileged() block supplied
                // aa synthesized ACC via a call to the private method
                // ExtClassLoader.getContext().
 
                return AccessController.doPrivileged(
                    new PrivilegedExceptionAction<ExtClassLoader>() {
                        public ExtClassLoader run() throws IOException {
                            int len = dirs.length;
                            for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                                MetaIndex.registerDirectory(dirs[i]);
                            }
                            return new ExtClassLoader(dirs);
                        }
                    });
            } catch (java.security.PrivilegedActionException e) {
                throw (IOException) e.getException();
            }
        }
 
        private static File[] getExtDirs() {
            String s = System.getProperty("java.ext.dirs");
            File[] dirs;
            if (s != null) {
                StringTokenizer st =
                    new StringTokenizer(s, File.pathSeparator);
                int count = st.countTokens();
                dirs = new File[count];
                for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                    dirs[i] = new File(st.nextToken());
                }
            } else {
                dirs = new File[0];
            }
            return dirs;
        }

......
    }