8004963: URLConnection, downgrade normative reference to ${java.home}/lib/content-types.properties

[Chris Hegarty]

Looks fine to me.

-Chris.

On 12/13/2012 01:49 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> As part of preparing for modules in the future [1], we need to look at
> configuration (and other) files in the JDK to see whether such files
> could eventually move to module-private locations.
>
> One of the normative references to a file in ${java.home} is
> URLConnection where it specifies the location of the JDK's
> default/built-in MIME table map. I don't think I've ever come across
> anyone changing that file and thinking about, I don't think I've
> actually come across code using getFileNameMap either. In any case, I
> would like to propose that we remove the reference to this location. If
> anyone really wants to override the file then they can do so with the
> content.types.user.table property. I don't propose any implementation
> changes, the implementation will continue to look at the default file as
> before. The webrev with the changes is here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8004963/webrev/
>
> Note that I've used the opportunity to remove a paragraph from the class
> description that refers to a field that was removed in JDK1.1.6. I don't
> think this is needed anymore.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/162