1. A method for enforcing that states of bootstrap class loader-defined classes used for populating a first defined shared memory region are consistent across two or more concurrently executing, separate applications that attached to the shared memory region, the method comprising: establishing an association between the first defined memory region and a first list of attached applications, the first list comprising the two or more concurrently executing, separate applications that attached to the first defined memory region; establishing an association between the first defined memory region and a first list of dependent bootstrap class loader-defined classes; and in response to a first application attempting to attach to the first defined memory region, initializing, for the first application, one or more classes in the first list of dependent bootstrap class loader-defined class, and adding the first application to the first list of attached applications.