I believe that you could still have the same problem when the implementation of java.net.URI would be different between platforms.
I never really looked into the GNU Classpath project but knowing what I know now ... I don't believe per se that it is bad to fork the development of core Java modules but I believe it to be quite bad when the forked modules behave differently and since I don't know how you could avoid having different behaviour when forking these modules ... Regards, Edwin -- http://www.edankert.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user