Really, it was interesting topic. I will check this.
________________________________ From: Mark Struberg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:48:35 PM Subject: blocking java.net.URL methods Hi! I found a really interesting blog about the behaviour of URL#hashCode and URL#equals: http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/2006/11/javaneturlequals-and-hashcode-make.html I'm programming Java since a long time but I actually wasn't aware that iterating over URLs _always_ performs DNS lookups :( And yes, we use URLs a lot in our code - but as far as I've seen only for jar and file resources (classpath URLs). LieGrue, strub
