FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.5.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode, sharing)


ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Linux 2.6.7-1-686 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:36:53 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
(Debian unstable)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The following code is affected by the problem:

XMLEncoder e = new XMLEncoder( System.out);
URI uri = new URI("/foo/bar");
e.writeObject( uri);
e.close();

It results in the following error message and XML output:

java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class java.beans.Statement can not access a member of class java.net.URI with modifiers "private"
Continuing ...
java.lang.Exception: discarding statement XMLEncoder0.writeObject(URI0);
Continuing ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.4.2" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
</java>

The problem occurs, because the URI class does not provide a default constructor (which wouldn't make sense, since it's immutable).

The problem can be solved by providing an appropriate PersistenceDelegate. It would be nice, if that could be provided with a future JDK release. If not, please at least consider throwing an exception with a better error description.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Execute the supplied source code.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.4.2" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
 <object class="java.net.URI">
  <null/>
  <null/>
  <string>/foo/bar</string>
  <null/>
  <null/>
 </object>
</java>

ACTUAL -
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class java.beans.Statement can not access a member of class java.net.URI with modifiers "private"
Continuing ...
java.lang.Exception: discarding statement XMLEncoder0.writeObject(URI0);
Continuing ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.4.2" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
</java>


ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class java.beans.Statement can not access a member of class java.net.URI with modifiers "private"
Continuing ...
java.lang.Exception: discarding statement XMLEncoder0.writeObject(URI0);
Continuing ...


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.beans.XMLEncoder;
import java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate;
import java.net.URI;

public class URIEncodingBug {

public static void main(String[] argv)
throws Exception
{
XMLEncoder e = new XMLEncoder( System.out);
URI uri = new URI("/foo/bar");
e.writeObject( uri);
e.close();
}
}

---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Uncomment the e.setPersistenceDelegate line...
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