5.3. Creation and Loading
Creation of a class or interface C denoted by the name N consists of the construction in the method area of the Java Virtual Machine (§2.5.4) of an implementation-specific internal representation of C. Class or interface creation is triggered by another class or interface D, which references C through its run-time constant pool.
Class or interface creation may also be triggered by D invoking methods in certain Java SE platform class libraries (§2.12) such as reflection.
If C is not an array class, it is created by loading a binary representation of C (§4) using a class loader. Array classes do not have an external binary representation; they are created by the Java Virtual Machine rather than by a class loader.
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