[Bug 3587] javaws add all JAR files embeeded inside JNLP references JAR file to the JNLP classpath

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https://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3587

--- Comment #7 from Robert Marcano <robert at marcanoonline.com> ---
(In reply to JiriVanek from comment #6)
> Straight to the heart.  That was included in 2009
> (http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/file/46128f71ec57/rt/net/
> sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/JNLPClassLoader.java) so from my point of view
> "that  was always there so it is right".
> 
> I'm really surprised that oracle jre do not do it. Maybe they were doing it,
> and later they abandoned that, because ITW is trying to mimic proprietary
> javaws in both features and bugs, so it is compatible.
> 
> I doubt that this changed was added by random.   I emiale doriginal author,
> maybe he will remember.
> 
> During my own involvement in ITW I met many applications which relied on
> nested jars being  on jnlpclasslaoder classpath.  That says, I never doubted
> itw is handling nested jars incorrectly. If oracle javaws dropped this
> support, I'm wondering why.

Maybe it broke some legitimate use on JAR embedding like mine, but I swear I
didn't report the bug to them :P.

Unless those applications that rely on this replicated bug don't ever run on
Oracle JVM, they will fail miserably today there.

The workaround for IcedTea-Web is easy, use another extension.

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