Re: Patch: RFA: solib URLs

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 11:30, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Tom Tromey writes: 
>  > * Adds a new `solib:' URL protocol handler.  A URL of this form is
>  >   somewhat like a `file:' URL, but the handler loads the file as a
>  >   shared library.  It is also somewhat like a `jar:' URL, in that
>  >   something of the form `solib:/path/to/libfoo.so!/some/other/path' is
>  >   used to look up resources in that shared library.
> 
> I don't understand the point of this.  Why not just use the "file:"
> prefix instead of adding a nonstandard one?

I was thinking the same thing, but I would suggest just using the "jar:"
protocol and then make the jar protocol handler detect if something is a
.jar/.zip or a .so file.

You could then even go so far as making JarFile and JarInputStream also
able to transparently read entries from a .so file. I believe the
java.util.jar API is abstract enough to make this possible.

But I have to admit that I haven't looked to much into this idea yet (or
actually read your patch that carefully...)

Cheers,

Mark