[redhat-ccm-list] weblogic URL("resource:///..") problem

[Chris Burdess]

Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> sun.net.www.protocol.resource.Handler is the URL protocol handler for
> resource://.  This class is part of WAF.

You're right. You appear to be unaware that this is a violation of the 
EULA for the Java runtime:

   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/j2sdk-1_4_2_04-license.txt

See the last sentence of section D of "Supplemental Licence Terms".

As such, you are prohibited from distributing CCM under the current 
licences (CCM Public Licence and GPL), and you need to issue a recall 
for all versions already distributed in which this class exists.

Technically, it is not difficult to solve this problem. Instead of 
using "resource:" URLs, you need to use the Class or ClassLoader 
getResource() and/or getResourceAsStream() methods.

Alternatively, you can set the system property 
java.protocol.handler.pkgs to include the package (in a suitable 
non-"sun" namespace) with the "Handler" class that you want to handle 
the "resource:" URL scheme. This property was documented in the API for 
Java 1.2 and is implemented in GNU Classpath, but is not documented in 
recent Sun versions and therefore may not work either in those versions 
or in the future, so the first solution is preferable.

What are your plans as regards a new release that resolves this 
problem, especially regarding the APLAWS+ distribution under GPL?