How do the multiple JVMs work?

Hi,

I am trying to understand the behavior of having multiple JVMs specifically the classloading. Are the application classes loaded only on one of the JVMs? Or they are loaded to all of the JVMs. If they are loaded only on one of the JVMs, then can I specify which class load to which JVM?

Also if I want to write small proof-of-concept to observe the behavior of multiple JVMs, and print the class name that a particular class is loaded, is there a API call to tell me the number of the JVMs that the classes is loaded from?

Thanks in advance,

Mustafa

[584 byte] By [ACaycia] at [2007-11-27 4:17:46]