Hi, we developed a nice little library over at the Excalibur project called jnet (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/excalibur/trunk/components/sourceresolve/jnet/)
It is a common purpose lib that allows you to dynamically register own url handlers. Background: the jvm only allows you to set a url handler once, so if you want to register handling your own protocols (like webdav: etc.), you should be the first one doing so :) Obviously, this might work for standalone apps but once you're running in a webapp this is bound to fail.
jnet uses a technique used by other projects to circumvent this restriction and allows to register url handlers based on the "current execution context", so it's possible to have different handlers for different webapps while still running in the same jvm.
The first version is working although this is still a prototype and there is room for additions/improvement.
As Excalibur itself is not...well...very active anymore and as this is a general purpose stuff several projects at Apache (and in other places) could benefit from (Cocoon is planning to use it, Felix is definitly another candidate although we haven't discussed this yet etc.), commons seems to be the right place.
So, my question is if there is interest here and what it would take to get this a proper commons project?
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