Archive for October 8th, 2007

deprecated File toURL() method in Java 6

Posted on October 8, 2007. Filed under: Java programming | Tags: 6, deprecated, file, java, JDK 6, method, programming, toURL, url |

after upgrading to Java 6, I just found out that toURL() method is deprecated in Java 6.
after doing some googling, I reached to this page: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1280051
The author (in the link above) said:

The toURL() method of File does not properly escape characters that aren’t valid in a URL. You can write better code today without waiting [...]