Hi! I've now looked through both impls and both share some very similar API classes obviously (MetaClass, MetaField, etc). Details are different, but I think we can extract a common API.
One thing I figured while looking at the code is that some parts are full with URI handling instead of URL. The problem with this is that an URI#toURL() internally does a new URL(uri.toString()); Now the problem hereby is that on some systems a URL u = someResource.getURL(); URL u2 = new URL(u.toExternalForm()); doesn't work. Those methods are just not reflexive on some systems. This happens often if VFS are involved (e.g. on JBossAS4,5,6, WebLogic, etc) and even in general on some OS (Solaris 10.5/Sparc). The only way I know to cope with it is to _not_ only store the String representation but the URL itself. This sucks big times as well, because URL is a class which escaped from hell - doing DNS lookup on equals() and other weird things *shudder* - but I don't know of any better way :( Any tip is welcome. LieGrue, strub --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
