Symbol ``['' and a java.net.URI.create method

[Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland]

Since this is a question about java.net.URI I am moving this question to 
the OpenJDK Net Dev alias.

I will try to answer it there.

-Chris.

Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on adopting of jpackage project to openSUSE and got a problem with 
> build of maven. The jpackage's folks have a script build-jar-repository, 
> which symlinks the jar files in /usr/share/java to defined dir.
> 
> My problem is, that the script produces a links in this 
> form - /foo/bar/[ant].jar which later causes an IllegalArgumentException, 
> because a java.net.URI.create dissallows ``[]'' in URI. The response from 
> jpackage is, that java.net.URI.create has a bug, because symbol ``['' is 
> valid in a Unix path.
> 
> 
> I'm testing several JRE implementations, but only gcj allows the ``[]'' in 
> URI, other ones not.
> 
> What do you think about? Is this really a bug in handling of unix filenames?
> 
> Regards
> Michal Vyskocil