title: What is a dynamic linking failure in the JVM?
body: <p>In Oracle's Java - <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/throwing.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Essential Classes Trail</a> I found the following statement:</p>
  
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    <p><strong>Error Class</strong></p>
    
    <p>When a <strong>dynamic linking</strong> failure or other <strong>hard failure</strong> in the Java
    virtual machine occurs, the virtual machine throws an Error. [...]</p>
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  <p>What exactly is meant by dynamic linking failure in the context of Java and the JVM? Is this related to issues the classloader might encounter at runtime?</p>