[AXIS-2882] Remove the need to set up custom URLStreamHandlers when using non-HTTP transports

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Veithen
• Created: 18/Nov/12 16:30
• Updated: 18/Nov/12 16:30

Description

Axis 1.4 internally uses java.net.URL to represent endpoint URLs. For non-HTTP endpoints this requires configuration of custom URLStreamHandlers (because otherwise the construction of java.net.URL objects would fail with an unknown protocol error). This is done by Call#addTransportPackage which modifies the java.protocol.handler.pkgs system property. However, modifying system properties in a shared environment is not a good thing.

Since we now require Java 1.4, we could use java.net.URI instead of java.net.URL to represent/process endpoint URLs and remove the need to modify the java.protocol.handler.pkgs system property.