Review request 8154837: Class::getPackage with exploded modules when classes in modules defined to the boot loader

[Mandy Chung]

> On Apr 21, 2016, at 11:31 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 21/04/2016 23:03, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Webrev:
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8154837/webrev.00/
>> 
>> The module location from an exploded image is file URL rather than file path.  This issue can be reproduced with jdk/test/java/lang/Package/GetPackages.java on windows.
> This looks okay, maybe slightly better if it starts for "file:/“.

Will patch before the push.

> At some point then I think we need to re-examine the underlying JVM function to see if we can get it to return a file URL for -Xbootclasspath/a case too. That is, it's a bit strange for the function to return a String that is sometimes a URL, sometimes a file path.

I agree and it’d be better to be consistent.  I will file an issue to track this.  

Mandy