While debugging a former colleague code, a Java servlet running under TomCat, we found the following interesting bug (interesting because google is not reporting a lot of results!).

Whenever you create a URL object pointing to a normal file url (file://c:/document.xml) and try to call the openStream method, you get this very informative exception:

It seems that the URL object is picking the ftp transport to try and initialize the connection, and that’s where the bug is. Trying file:///c:/document.xml doesn’t work either, nor does file:///c|/document.xml. The correct solution is in fact:

file:c:/document.xml which is turned internally to file:/c:/document.xml

If anyone has an explanation on the reason of this weird behavior, I’d love to hear it!

I don’t get it… What is that with Rory attracting people like that? I can’t see anything interesting about an in-the-closet gay geek that draws stuff on a weblog…

For the stupid ones that really believed that… Well, get a life. Really. I love Rory, you should know better. Or don’t. Just quit reading blogs. NOW!

It’s terrible when you’re waiting behind the fax machine and nothing gets out… While waiting, I try to get busy with work; Which leads me to a question:

What the bloody hell were the visio creators thinking with their software stencils… Class diagrams are undoable without relying on UML, and that’s not a good thing. Wonder what tools Microsoft use to release their nice drawings. Oh well, need to stand up and go check the fax machine again…