4. A method according to claim 1 wherein said instrumenting step comprises instrumenting a system class.
1. A method for instrumenting a computer-based software application, the method comprising: instrumenting instructions of a computer software application, said instructions being in a first computer instruction language, with a native handler referencing instructions in a second language, wherein execution of said computer software application requires a loading of a first class before a loading of a second class, and wherein said instrumenting step is performed at a location within said computer software application where a reference to said second class in said first computer instruction language would cause said second class to be loaded before said first class during execution of said computer software application; and creating said instructions referenced by said native handler in said second computer instruction language to reference said second class in said first computer instruction language.