We should also nuke gopher and netdoc (in sun.net.www.protocol package) I am not sure if mailto should continue as there are better solutions.
Mike On Oct 15 2012, at 09:14 , Alan Bateman wrote: > > java.net.URL guarantees that 5 protocol handlers are present: http, https, > ftp, file and jar. > > ftp a legacy protocol and I'm wondering whether it's time to consider > removing it from the list. I'm not suggesting we don't continue to include > it, rather just removing the guarantee that it is always present. The > motivation for bringing this up is modules and compact profiles where it > might be desirable to not include the ftp protocol handler for footprint > reasons. > > -Alan
