Seems reasonable. 

-Chris

On 15 Oct 2012, at 17:14, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> java.net.URL guarantees that 5 protocol handlers are present: http, https, 
> ftp, file and jar.
> 
> ftp a legacy protocol and I'm wondering whether it's time to consider 
> removing it from the list. I'm not suggesting we don't continue to include 
> it, rather just removing the guarantee that it is always present. The 
> motivation for bringing this up is modules and compact profiles where it 
> might be desirable to not include the ftp protocol handler for footprint 
> reasons.
> 
> -Alan

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