--- ArchiveFactoryImpl.java	Thu Jul 26 13:50:58 2007
+++ \src\GlobalVise\calico\rvcatalog\webapp\src\oracle\toplink\essentials\ejb\cmp3\persistence\ArchiveFactoryImpl.java	Mon Feb 04 14:14:53 2008
@@ -96,7 +96,19 @@
                 uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), null);
             }
             
-            File f = new File(uri);
+            // this check is to avert disaster with some appservers that pass
+            // in URLs which, when converted into URIs and passed to a File
+            // constructor, cause the error "URI is not hierarchical"
+            File f = null;
+            if(!uri.isOpaque())
+            {
+              f = new File(uri);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+              logger.logp(Level.WARNING, "ArchiveFactoryImpl", "createArchive", "uri is opaque, using url path: {0}", url.getPath());
+              f = new File(url.getPath());
+            }
         
             if (f.isDirectory()) {
                 // e.g. file:/tmp/a_ear/ejb_jar