A .vdb file nested inside the Spring Repackage jar can not be read ------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: TEIIDSB-203 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/TEIIDSB-203 Project: Teiid Spring Boot Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 1.4.0 Reporter: Ramesh Reddy Assignee: Ramesh Reddy Priority: Major Fix For: 1.5.0 When user is using a .VDB file as VDB and builds a spring repackage based application, at runtime the loading of the VDB is failed as it is being read as classpath resource. The exception you see is {code} Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI: jar:file:/home/rareddy/development/teiid-spring-boot/samples/vdb/target/spring-vdb-example-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar does not contain path info ex. jar:file:/c:/foo.zip!/BAR at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.getPath(ZipFileSystemProvider.java:155) ~[jdk.zipfs:na] at java.base/java.nio.file.Path.of(Path.java:208) ~[na:na] at java.base/java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:98) ~[na:na] at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.uriToPath(ZipFileSystemProvider.java:77) ~[jdk.zipfs:na] at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.getFileSystem(ZipFileSystemProvider.java:167) ~[jdk.zipfs:na] at java.base/java.nio.file.FileSystems.getFileSystem(FileSystems.java:231) ~[na:na] at org.teiid.query.metadata.NioZipFileSystem.mount(NioZipFileSystem.java:67) ~[teiid-engine-14.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:14.0.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.teiid.query.metadata.NioZipFileSystem.mount(NioZipFileSystem.java:51) ~[teiid-engine-14.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:14.0.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.teiid.spring.autoconfigure.TeiidAutoConfiguration.loadVDB(TeiidAutoConfiguration.java:214) ~[teiid-spring-boot-starter-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT] {code} basically one cannot read a nested jar files. The issue also explained here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37634452/urlclassloader-cant-handle-j...