On 10/07/2014 01:50, Peter Firmstone wrote:
Are there parties on this list interested in updating java.net.URI to
RFC3986?
Is there anyone here who has previously attempted this? If so what
issues did you find with regard to backward compatibility?
Hopefully Michael McMahon will jump in and give some of the history. In
summary, it was upgraded to RFC 3986 during JDK 6 (before OpenJDK).
There were many incompatibilities understood and analyzed before the
update was attempted but it was that the issues that came out of the
wood work later that lead to a complete back-out of the update. I think
some of the history should be in the bug database.
-Alan
