The RMI and serialization team recently ran into a problem trying to use a ConcurrentHashMap inside of the ObjectStreamClass to speed up serialization. The ConcurrentHashMap was being allocated in the static initializer of ObjectStreamClass; this led to an exception during VM bootstrapping, and no stack trace was printed. The lack of a stack trace is problematic when working on the bootstrapping portions of the core libraries.

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