SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DISTRIBUTED CLASS LOADING IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM)

A system and method can support distributed class loading in a computing environment, such as a virtual machine. A class loader can break a classpath into one or more subsets of a classpath, wherein the classpath is associated with a class. Furthermore, the class loader can use one or more threads to locate the class based on said one or more subsets of the classpath. Then, the class loader can load the class after a said thread locates the class.