How to safely access the URLs of all resource files in the classpath in Java 9/10?

Question

We learned from the release notes of Java 9 that

The application class loader is no longer an instance of java.net.URLClassLoader (an implementation

Answer 1

AFAIK you can parse the java.class.path system property to get the urls:

String classpath = System.getProperty("java.class.path");
String[] entries = classpath.split(File.pathSeparator);
URL[] result = new URL[entries.length];
for(int i = 0; i < entries.length; i++) {
    result[i] = Paths.get(entries[i]).toAbsolutePath().toUri().toURL();
}

System.out.println(Arrays.toString(result)); // e.g. [file:/J:/WS/Oxygen-Stable/jdk10/bin/]