"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | But isn't that the whole point. If the URI really is a URL | then the handler extends AbstractURLHandler and gets | (or it can reimplement it). | ... | But if it is not really URL based then the handler | has to provide its own implementation. | i.e. a mapping to the real resource it is trying to represent with the | more logical URI. | | The real issue is whether you also need | to write a URLStreamHandler besides the virtual file stuff. Yes, good point. Separating out the URL/URI nature should cleanup the issues. I should look at adding the URI support before going on with serialization then. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970401#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...