[platform-core-dev] Re: setURLStreamHandlerFactory

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to let you know, we (Visual Editor)
and many others rely heavily on the URL support in Eclipse for accessing
the platform: protocol. It is extremely important for us. We are dealing
with functions (XMI in particular) that work only with URL's and we need
to be able to access in a reliable platform independent URL way the resources
in a workspace or in a plugin. These URLs are saved out into files and
distributed to other workspaces (such as through CVS) and so must be platform
independent, which the platform: protocol is. If the platform: protocol
is removed it would break many functions. 

So please don't think about removing
this capability in the future.

Thanks,
Rich