diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2732cb851..64e050563 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
+ * Fix `Loader.load()` not properly force loading all inherited target classes ([issue #1](https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp/issues/1))
+
 ### April 28, 2014 version 0.8
  * Move from Google Code to GitHub as main source code repository
  * Place build-time classes in the `org.bytedeco.javacpp.tools` package and bring out static nested classes, in an effort to avoid conflicts and ease development
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1c85bd988..5c73a59bf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.bytedeco</groupId>
   <artifactId>javacpp</artifactId>
-  <version>0.8</version>
+  <version>0.8-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
 
   <name>JavaCPP</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/ClassProperties.java b/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/ClassProperties.java
index 189cc18e2..e83ec3c60 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/ClassProperties.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/ClassProperties.java
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ public void load(Class cls, boolean inherit) {
         classList.addFirst(c);
         while (!c.isAnnotationPresent(org.bytedeco.javacpp.annotation.Properties.class)
                 && !c.isAnnotationPresent(Platform.class) && c.getSuperclass() != Object.class) {
+            // accumulate superclasses to process native methods from those as well
             classList.addFirst(c = c.getSuperclass());
         }
         if (effectiveClasses == null) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/Loader.java b/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/Loader.java
index 59e14f6e9..16cbafdba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/Loader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bytedeco/javacpp/Loader.java
@@ -368,18 +368,29 @@ public static String load(Class cls) {
 
         // Find the top enclosing class, to match the library filename
         cls = getEnclosingClass(cls);
+        ClassProperties p = loadProperties(cls, loadProperties(), true);
 
-        // Force initialization of the class in case it needs it
-        try {
-            cls = Class.forName(cls.getName(), true, cls.getClassLoader());
-        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
-            Error e = new NoClassDefFoundError(ex.toString());
-            e.initCause(ex);
-            throw e;
+        // Force initialization of all the target classes in case they need it
+        LinkedList<String> targets = p.get("target");
+        if (targets.isEmpty()) {
+            if (p.getInheritedClasses() != null) {
+                for (Class c : p.getInheritedClasses()) {
+                    targets.add(c.getName());
+                }
+            }
+            targets.add(cls.getName());
+        }
+        for (String s : targets) {
+            try {
+                Class.forName(s, true, cls.getClassLoader());
+            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
+                Error e = new NoClassDefFoundError(ex.toString());
+                e.initCause(ex);
+                throw e;
+            }
         }
 
         // Preload native libraries desired by our class
-        ClassProperties p = loadProperties(cls, loadProperties(), true);
         LinkedList<String> preloads = new LinkedList<String>();
         preloads.addAll(p.get("platform.preload"));
         preloads.addAll(p.get("platform.link"));