Class-Path (in jar file) semantics different between Java 11 and 13 (on Windows)?

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Nov 20 17:21:40 UTC 2019



On 20/11/2019 17:02, David Lloyd wrote:
> I'll see where the usages are.  I believe at least one usage is out of
> our control though, and I'm pretty sure that Maven uses absolute paths
> for surefire and failsafe (test) launching.
>
Let us know on that. I remember we ran into issues with Sunfire abusing 
this attribute and this was part of the motivation for relaxing the spec 
to allow absolute URLs when the scheme is "file".

-Alan


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