The code which used to work in jdk 1.5 causes failure in jdk 1.6. Pl. refer bug# 6425843 for background information on this bug. Referring to the following evaluation, eventhough a bug might have been fixed this introduced incompatibilty between jdk 1.5 and jdk 1.6. This needs to be addressed, for ex. by documenting and warning the users in advance.

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the MalformedURLException is thrown because the URI being passed to DocumentBuild.parse(uri) is invalid. note that URIs cannot contain spaces, they must be escaped, %20, like other special chars in URIs. see the Javadoc for java.net.URL for specs and validity rules.

App Server should be passing in a valid URI.

note that the TestSpace attached program clearly demonstrates, this: the URI is invalid, contains a space, so an exception is thrown.

Entry 4 jeff.suttor [2006-06-01 02:30]
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I can't reproduce this. I wonder if it's been fixed along the way?
I've now confirmed that this bug is fixed (as a consequence of fixing 6449441). There is a unit test for it in the RI.