RFR - 8132734: java.util.jar.* changes to support multi-release jar files
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Nov 10 10:10:10 UTC 2015
On 10/11/2015 09:06, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> :
>
> It’s more common to register a URLStreamHandlerFactory via URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory. I suspect that is used more for supporting different URL schemes than for overriding the “jar” scheme. This is a very delicate area, override the “jar" scheme might be risky given the interaction with class loaders. IMO the URLs returned from JDK ClassLoaders should be using URL schemes that are not overridable, but it’s probably too late to change that.
>
We had to re-examine this area in preparation for modules and
java.net.URL has the following in its javadoc:
* Some protocol handlers, for example those used for loading platform
* classes or classes on the class path, may not be overridden. The
details
* of such restrictions, and when those restrictions apply (during
* initialization of the runtime for example), are implementation
specific
* and therefore not specified.
At things stand then the file and jrt protocol handlers are not
overridable. The jar protocol handler can be overridden but not via the
ServiceLoader mechanism (for obvious reasons) and only after the
VM/runtime has been initialized.
The Java Plugin and Java Web Start in Oracle's builds is the only case
that I'm aware of where the jar protocol handler is overridden.
-Alan
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