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However, applets loaded by different class loader instances are completely isolated and cannot access each others' public static fields. Further, code from any class can access public members of any class that was loaded by any class loader in the delegation chain of the current class's class loader. In the diagram below, for example, code in classes C4 and C5 can freely access public members of class C2, whereas neither class C2} nor class C4 can access public members of class C5.
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