Re: Invalid JAR URIs

At 12:46 PM +0200 7/3/03, Roy T. Fielding wrote:


>Hmmm... okay... then why the Quux.xml#foo part?  If you want to identify
>a class within the jar file, then it should use the Java syntax for the
>class name (not the file structure).  That would be
>
>     http://www.foo.com/bar/baz.jar#com.foo.quux.main


Like tar archives, jar archives contain files, not classes. Some of 
these files can be converted into classes, but not all can be. Your 
tar example is more appropriate.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Received on Thursday, 3 July 2003 08:27:07 UTC