RFR [9] 8039470:URLConnection.getContent incorrectly specifies the default location of content handler classes

[Michael McMahon]

Is there potential for confusion there? <system default package> really just
means an "implementation defined" package rather than the Java 
language's "default package"?

Michael

On 08/04/14 20:03, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> java.net.URLConnection.getContent() incorrectly specifies the default location of content handler classes as sun.net.www.content. ( this location is implementation specific )
>
>    "If no content handler factory has yet been set up, or if the factory's createContentHandler method
>      returns null, then the application loads the class named:
>           sun.net.www.content.<contentType> "
>
> This should be changed to something like:
>      <system default package>.<contentType>, similar to what is done in URL [1]
>        
> Trivial specDiff:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8039470/URLConnection-report.html
>
> -Chris.
>
> [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#URL-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-int-java.lang.String-
>