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I have some Clojure clj files in a jar called A.jar.

This jar is started up, and I see that all of the clj files are loaded by the Application ClassLoader, along with the rest of the classes in the jar.

At runtime a new jar is added to the classpath, with some clj files that `require`s some of the clj files already loaded by the App ClassLoader.

What I have observed is that, when this newly added jar's clj files are being loaded, the `require`s they have on already loaded clj classes, are causing them to be reloaded.

The issue is that if these files that are reloaded, have something like `defrecord` in them, they load a new "version" of the same class, with a different classloader.

Where this has caused troubles for me, is I can not do something like `instance?` on a `defrecord` type class, if the object I'm looking at came from the dynamically loaded jar.

Is this the expected behavior?  I thought that `require` would detect that the clj has already been loaded in the RT by the App ClassLoader, so it would not reload it, unless specifically directed to by :reload or :reload-all.