Re: Improperly encoded URLs

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:06:59PM -0400, Humphreys, Brett wrote:
>
> It seems that sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke produces this list of
> space separated jar URLs (figure 4, step 7 in the referenced document)
> that are sent to the server and parsed.  I'm curious how this list is
> produced.  Is every classloader in the VM queried for jar locations it
> has loaded?  If the java.rmi.server.codebase property isn't set, how is
> this list calculated?
>
> Further setting java.rmi.server.codebase property (on the client, who is
> making the call) doesn't seem to have much affect on this behavior.  At
> least with respect to the list of jars that are sent to the server.  But
> according to the documentation, I expected it to have some affect on
> this behavior.

Gregg is right to point to the RMIClassLoader.getClassAnnotation
method.  The behavior of that method for the default RMIClassLoader
provider is described here:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/rmi/server/RMIClassLoader.html#getDefaultProviderInstance()

-- Peter

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