Hi again, I've been doing a little more reading of the code and I think I was mistaken. Looks like the lookup is done properly in URLHandlers.getBuiltInStreamHandler().
Sorry - must have got a wire crossed. --Royce On 10/11/2009, at 2:13 PM, Royce Ausburn wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm porting a legacy application to Java EE and having trouble running my app > under glassfish v3 prelude. > > The problem is URL stream handlers. My application used to register a > URLStreamHandlerFactory against java.net.URL, but that doesn't work anymore > as felix registers a factory before my app starts. So I decided to use the > java.protocol.handler.pkgs system property only to find that it's not > effective. After checking out Felix from svn I found the URLHandlers class > honours handlers for some default protocols (file, ftp, http, https, jar), > but it seems that any other protocols are discarded. > > I'm not familiar with osgi... Is it intended behaviour to ignore the rest? > If so, I'm interested to know why. > > I suppose I have the option to write a bundle and register that, but I'm not > keen on it... The application's handlers use classes from the application and > working out how this would work in a bundle isn't something I'd like to spend > my time on as I have deadlines to meet =( > > Is there any way I can get around this? Would it be possible to have the > URLHandler class fall back to the system properties if no bundle has been > registered? > > Cheers! > > --Royce >
