11. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein an instance of the first class type includes a reference to the first loader dependent part of the runtime representation of the first class type.
11. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein an instance of the first class type includes a reference to the first loader dependent part of the runtime representation of the first class type. 12. A method as recited in claim 11 , wherein the first loader dependent part of the runtime representation of the first class type includes: a reference to the first loader independent part of the runtime representation of the first class type; a reference to the first loader dependent part of a representation of a super class type of the first class type; a first loader dependent part table including information computed from symbolic links; and an array of references to a first loader dependent part runtime representation of methods.