Comments on: PANIC MODE JAVA

By: Charles E Coleman

Charles E Coleman — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:47:15 +0000

Another issue with URL, perhaps more serious, is cited by Bloch, Effective Java 2nd edition, p. 41:

“…java.net.URL’s equals method relies on comparison of the IP addresses of the hosts associated with the URLs. Translating ahost name as an IP address can require network access, and it isn’t guaranteed to yield the same results over time”

I have heard it said that it is best practice to always use URI over URL.

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:40:36 +0000

Oh, it’s easy enough to work with. But a URI is not exactly a URL, so they should have built this funcationality in. And I’m allowed to ***** if I want to

By: inaequitas

inaequitas — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:27:49 +0000

Well instead of bitching about it you’d find some elegant way of working besides it.

So going further on into toURI and toString tells you that both URI and String are Comparable. Issue ends here.

So maybe they weren’t so lazy after all. Given that, you know, they did Java.