David Radley

@reswqa my bad - I was cherry picking the commit shas from you branch -when I needed to get them from master. Just building and testing then I will create...

@reswqa I have raised [pr](https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/24741) for the backport to 1.18 (I squashed the commits). - I will do 1.19 now.

@reswqa I have raised https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/24742 for the backport to 1.19 (I squashed the commits)

This is a pr we would like merged. It looks like @snuyanzin asked for tests to be added. @xuyangzhong are you looking at adding the tests?

@planetf1 @mandy-chessell fyi

@cmgrote Thanks for these considerations. I will ask for more details from the people who suggested this.

Thanks @carstenmichel @cmgrote . I am seeing 2 approaches. 1) Each connector has a custom classloader, so its dependancies are managed in its own isolated 'sandpit' + in theory no...

I assume we are talking about the connector classloader mentioned here [https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19830-01/819-4721/beade/index.html](https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19830-01/819-4721/beade/index.html)

Hi @carstenmichel , I think your idea is interesting especially for integration connectors. I wonder if you go into more detail on how this would work in gradle / code,...

Hi @PeterChenTian , can you give more details on how to reproduce this please. I am interested in: - which repository you are using - I assume this is a...