Jboss 6.0 reading a manifest from a jar within a jar

[gregorymace]

I'm using a plugin that used to work with JBoss 5.1.0.GA and does not work with 6.0.1  The code is parsing a .rar file to read manifests from jar files it contains.

The old protocol came in as vfsfile: and the URL and JarInputStream had no problem reading the internal jar's manifest, but now on 6.0 the protocol comes in as vfs:  and the manifest just comes back null.  Do I need to configure a separate handler to deal with the new protocol.  If there is something I'm missing, could someone let me know.

[gregorymace]

so..., no one has seen this. I'm just looking for what might be missing or what has changed to make vfsfile: become vfs:.  Any input?

[shelly.mcgowan]

JBoss AS 6 (since Mileston 3) uses VFS3, refer to the VFS3 User Guide.

[alesj]

What and how exactly are you trying to do this?

e.g. you shouldn't rely on any impl detail -- simple code against InputStream, whatever impl that might be

[gregorymace]

Wow, 2 months later... I'm using a plugin that used to work with JBoss 5.1.0.GA and does not work with 6.0.1. I didn't write it.  So no backward compatibility? 

[alesj]

Wow, 2 months later...

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I'm using a plugin that used to work with JBoss 5.1.0.GA and does not work with 6.0.1. I didn't write it.  So no backward compatibility? 

5 -> 6 is a major version bump, same with VFS 2 -> 3.

So no guarantee it will be back compatible.

What kind of plugin is this?

Like I said, I/O is always an issue, with lots of bad assumptions.

Protocol handling mostly being the major pita.

Majority of frameworks provide proper hooks or actually doing work w/o protocol impl assumptions.