IMO a centralized "uri" service (/helper) that uniformly provides `classpath://` (and any other schemes we want to implement) uri suppport would be best. Look at the XML/DTD/XSD resolution code which already has all of this logic; e.g.:

• org.hibernate.boot.jaxb.internal.stax.LocalXmlResourceResolver
• org.hibernate.internal.util.xml.DTDEntityResolver