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The answer to ‘unloading classes in java’ says –
“The only way that a Class can be unloaded is if the Classloader used is garbage collected.”
I took a look at the JLS but couldn’t understand it
Why is this the case?
A class is only unloaded when it is garbage collected, and for that to happen there must be no references to it anywhere. And the classloader keeps a reference to each class it loads.