Answer by OldCurmudgeon for What else can throw a ClassCastException in java?
And finally, someone hacked the String intern table for the string "a". See an example of how it can be done here.
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Well maybe because C1 is an abstract class, and the get function also returns on object(of a subclass of C1 of course) which was casted to C1 before returning?
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The ClassCastException can occur if the same class was loaded by multiple different classloaders and instances of the classes are being shared between them. Consider the following example hierarchy....
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One reason could be that the part of the code inserting the object uses a different classloader than the code retrieving it. An instance of a class can not be cast to the same class loaded by a...
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This is an interview question. The interview is over, but this question is still on my mind. I can't ask the interviewer, as I did not get the job. Scenario: put object of class C1 in to a cache with...
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