Resurrect UrlEncodedQueryString (RFE 6306820)?

[Weijun Wang]

Is "?a=b&c=d" different from "?c=d&a=d" ?

kennardconsulting wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have been prodded to try and resurrect the work we did on
> UrlEncodedQueryString. The story so far is...
> 
> 1. Michael, Alan and I spent 18 months working on it until we were all
> pretty happy with it
> 2. Everyone on the CCC except Mark Reinhold signed off on it
> 3. Mark had reservations on overlap with JSR-311. This JSR has now released
> their version
> https://jsr311.dev.java.net/nonav/javadoc/javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html
> and I really don't see much of an overlap. The version in JSR-311 is a) very
> concerned with Web Services, URI templates etc, and b) is not part of Java
> SE
> 4. I have released UrlEncodedQueryString on java.net:
> https://urlencodedquerystring.dev.java.net
> 
> It seems most of the heavy lifting has already been done. Is there any
> interest in doing the final push to get this in to JDK 7?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard.