- Actually, it's quite easy to fashion something like this yourself. Using the Java 2
URLClassLoader and a "launcher" class you can make a network-enabled classpath rather easily. Back
- Probably a more general and useful solution would have used XML documents instead of
DataInputStream -readable streams. However,this is just an example protocol handler, I didn't want my description to get bogged down with ancillary APIs such as the org.xml APIs. Back
- The Windows registry API does allow an application to look at the registry on foreign machines within a domain.However,machines must be identified by their
NetBios name.The URL class strictly requires that any host names provided in the URL string can be turned into a
java.net.InetAddress object (using
InetAddress.getByName()) . Because you can't necessarily do that conversion with NetBios names, my win32registry: protocol handler simplifies things by restricting access to the local machine. Back
- Consider an alternative example: the
mailto: protocol handler. Mailto: URLs don't look like normal URLs, so a mailto: protocol handler implementation must override the parseURL() method and provide an alternative parsing algorithm. Back
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