diff --git a/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/FileServerXml.java b/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/FileServerXml.java
index c05fe5c4cd1..641612e0e0d 100644
--- a/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/FileServerXml.java
+++ b/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/FileServerXml.java
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ public class FileServerXml
 {
     public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
     {
-        Resource fileserverXml = Resource.newSystemResource("fileserver.xml");
-        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(
-                fileserverXml.getInputStream());
+        Resource fileServerXml = Resource.newSystemResource("fileserver.xml");
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(fileServerXml);
         Server server = (Server) configuration.configure();
         server.start();
         server.join();
diff --git a/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/AntWebAppContext.java b/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/AntWebAppContext.java
index a76d390922f..44b24e293cb 100644
--- a/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/AntWebAppContext.java
+++ b/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/AntWebAppContext.java
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletMapping;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.Source;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.MetaInfConfiguration;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader;
@@ -608,7 +609,7 @@ public class AntWebAppContext extends WebAppContext
             //apply a context xml file if one was supplied
             if (contextXml != null)
             {
-                XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.toURL(contextXml));
+                XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(new PathResource(contextXml));
                 TaskLog.log("Applying context xml file "+contextXml);
                 xmlConfiguration.configure(this);   
             }
diff --git a/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/ServerProxyImpl.java b/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/ServerProxyImpl.java
index ac62bfc280a..9cc5b05c36c 100644
--- a/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/ServerProxyImpl.java
+++ b/jetty-ant/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/ant/ServerProxyImpl.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
@@ -451,7 +452,7 @@ public class ServerProxyImpl implements ServerProxy
             XmlConfiguration configuration;
             try
             {
-                configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.toURL(jettyXml));
+                configuration = new XmlConfiguration(new PathResource(jettyXml));
                 configuration.configure(server);
             }
             catch (MalformedURLException e)
diff --git a/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/bindings/GlobalWebappConfigBinding.java b/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/bindings/GlobalWebappConfigBinding.java
index 5082550159d..5b80468eba2 100644
--- a/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/bindings/GlobalWebappConfigBinding.java
+++ b/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/bindings/GlobalWebappConfigBinding.java
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public class GlobalWebappConfigBinding implements AppLifeCycle.Binding
 
             if (globalContextSettings.exists())
             {
-                XmlConfiguration jettyXmlConfig = new XmlConfiguration(globalContextSettings.getInputStream());
+                XmlConfiguration jettyXmlConfig = new XmlConfiguration(globalContextSettings);
                 Resource resource = Resource.newResource(app.getOriginId());
                 app.getDeploymentManager().scope(jettyXmlConfig,resource);
                 WebAppClassLoader.runWithServerClassAccess(()->{jettyXmlConfig.configure(context);return null;});
diff --git a/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/providers/WebAppProvider.java b/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/providers/WebAppProvider.java
index 44de4134c56..7805d2d6bad 100644
--- a/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/providers/WebAppProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-deploy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/providers/WebAppProvider.java
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ public class WebAppProvider extends ScanningAppProvider
 
         if (resource.exists() && FileID.isXmlFile(file))
         {
-            XmlConfiguration xmlc = new XmlConfiguration(resource.getURI().toURL())
+            XmlConfiguration xmlc = new XmlConfiguration(resource)
             {
                 @Override
                 public void initializeDefaults(Object context)
diff --git a/jetty-deploy/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/test/XmlConfiguredJetty.java b/jetty-deploy/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/test/XmlConfiguredJetty.java
index db579f09088..e4f582a6046 100644
--- a/jetty-deploy/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/test/XmlConfiguredJetty.java
+++ b/jetty-deploy/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/deploy/test/XmlConfiguredJetty.java
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.test;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
-
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -53,17 +46,25 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.MavenTestingUtils;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.PathAssert;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.IO;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.URIUtil;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
 
 /**
  * Allows for setting up a Jetty server for testing based on XML configuration files.
  */
 public class XmlConfiguredJetty
 {
-    private List<URL> _xmlConfigurations;
+    private List<Resource> _xmlConfigurations;
     private Map<String,String> _properties = new HashMap<>();
     private Server _server;
     private int _serverPort;
@@ -137,9 +138,9 @@ public class XmlConfiguredJetty
             setProperty(String.valueOf(key),String.valueOf(properties.get(key)));
     }
 
-    public void addConfiguration(File xmlConfigFile) throws MalformedURLException
+    public void addConfiguration(File xmlConfigFile)
     {
-        addConfiguration(Resource.toURL(xmlConfigFile));
+        addConfiguration(new PathResource(xmlConfigFile));
     }
 
     public void addConfiguration(String testConfigName) throws MalformedURLException
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguredJetty
         addConfiguration(MavenTestingUtils.getTestResourceFile(testConfigName));
     }
 
-    public void addConfiguration(URL xmlConfig)
+    public void addConfiguration(Resource xmlConfig)
     {
         _xmlConfigurations.add(xmlConfig);
     }
@@ -330,8 +331,8 @@ public class XmlConfiguredJetty
         // Configure everything
         for (int i = 0; i < this._xmlConfigurations.size(); i++)
         {
-            URL configURL = this._xmlConfigurations.get(i);
-            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(configURL);
+            Resource configResource = this._xmlConfigurations.get(i);
+            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(configResource);
             if (last != null)
                 configuration.getIdMap().putAll(last.getIdMap());
             configuration.getProperties().putAll(_properties);
diff --git a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/AbstractJettyMojo.java b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/AbstractJettyMojo.java
index d33dbc10180..661b9523326 100644
--- a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/AbstractJettyMojo.java
+++ b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/AbstractJettyMojo.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.PathWatcher;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.StringUtil;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
@@ -556,7 +557,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractJettyMojo extends AbstractMojo
                 contextXml = path.toFile().getAbsolutePath();
             }
     
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.toURL(path.toFile()));
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(new PathResource(path));
             getLog().info("Applying context xml file "+contextXml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webApp);   
         }
diff --git a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/ServerSupport.java b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/ServerSupport.java
index 56da7940eb7..338427e3e90 100644
--- a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/ServerSupport.java
+++ b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/ServerSupport.java
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.Configuration;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.Configurations;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ public class ServerSupport
                 PluginLog.getLog().info( "Configuring Jetty from xml configuration file = " + xmlFile.getCanonicalPath() );   
 
 
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.toURL(xmlFile));
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(new PathResource(xmlFile));
             
             //add in any properties
             if (properties != null)
diff --git a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/WebAppPropertyConverter.java b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/WebAppPropertyConverter.java
index c8a4f71b7d1..c929fa59677 100644
--- a/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/WebAppPropertyConverter.java
+++ b/jetty-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/maven/plugin/WebAppPropertyConverter.java
@@ -19,13 +19,9 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.maven.plugin;
 
-import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -253,7 +249,7 @@ public class WebAppPropertyConverter
         str = props.getProperty("context.xml");
         if (!StringUtil.isBlank(str))
         {
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(str).getURI().toURL());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(str));
             xmlConfiguration.getIdMap().put("Server",server);
             //add in any properties
             if (jettyProperties != null)
diff --git a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractContextProvider.java b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractContextProvider.java
index 4505341c78b..896f6e85edf 100644
--- a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractContextProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractContextProvider.java
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextProvider extends AbstractLifeCycle implemen
                     {
                         Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(classLoader);
                         
-                        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(res.getInputStream());
+                        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(res);
                         HashMap properties = new HashMap();
                         //put the server instance in
                         properties.put("Server", getServerInstanceWrapper().getServer());
diff --git a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractWebAppProvider.java b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractWebAppProvider.java
index 8ec84811fc2..fe54fd50f51 100644
--- a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractWebAppProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/AbstractWebAppProvider.java
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractWebAppProvider extends AbstractLifeCycle implement
                 // Apply it just as the standard jetty ContextProvider would do
                 LOG.info("Applying " + contextXmlUri + " to " + _webApp);
 
-                XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXmlUri);
+                XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(contextXmlUri));
                 WebAppClassLoader.runWithServerClassAccess(()->
                 {
                     HashMap<String,String> properties = new HashMap<>();
diff --git a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/internal/serverfactory/ServerInstanceWrapper.java b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/internal/serverfactory/ServerInstanceWrapper.java
index 7b6d31983fb..1862a8f51a4 100644
--- a/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/internal/serverfactory/ServerInstanceWrapper.java
+++ b/jetty-osgi/jetty-osgi-boot/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/boot/internal/serverfactory/ServerInstanceWrapper.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.osgi.boot.internal.serverfactory;
 
-import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.StringUtil;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
 /**
@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ public class ServerInstanceWrapper
 
         for (URL jettyConfiguration : jettyConfigurations)
         {
-            try(InputStream in = jettyConfiguration.openStream())
+            try
             {
                 // Execute a Jetty configuration file
-                XmlConfiguration config = new XmlConfiguration(in);
+                XmlConfiguration config = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(jettyConfiguration));
 
                 config.getIdMap().putAll(id_map);
                 config.getProperties().putAll(properties);
diff --git a/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/EnvConfiguration.java b/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/EnvConfiguration.java
index 277e48e19d2..9cacc53ec55 100644
--- a/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/EnvConfiguration.java
+++ b/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/EnvConfiguration.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
-
 import javax.naming.Binding;
 import javax.naming.Context;
 import javax.naming.InitialContext;
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.EnvEntry;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.NamingEntryUtil;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.AbstractConfiguration;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.FragmentConfiguration;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JettyWebXmlConfiguration;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class EnvConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
     private static final Logger LOG = Log.getLogger(EnvConfiguration.class);
 
     private static final String JETTY_ENV_BINDINGS = "org.eclipse.jetty.jndi.EnvConfiguration";
-    private URL jettyEnvXmlUrl;
+    private Resource jettyEnvXmlResource;
 
     public EnvConfiguration()
     {
@@ -66,9 +66,14 @@ public class EnvConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
         protectAndExpose("org.eclipse.jetty.jndi.");
     }
 
+    public void setJettyEnvResource(Resource resource)
+    {
+        this.jettyEnvXmlResource = resource;
+    }
+
     public void setJettyEnvXml (URL url)
     {
-        this.jettyEnvXmlUrl = url;
+        this.jettyEnvXmlResource = Resource.newResource(url);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -86,7 +91,7 @@ public class EnvConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
 
         //check to see if an explicit file has been set, if not,
         //look in WEB-INF/jetty-env.xml
-        if (jettyEnvXmlUrl == null)
+        if (jettyEnvXmlResource == null)
         {
             //look for a file called WEB-INF/jetty-env.xml
             //and process it if it exists
@@ -96,12 +101,12 @@ public class EnvConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
                 org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource jettyEnv = web_inf.addPath("jetty-env.xml");
                 if(jettyEnv.exists())
                 {
-                    jettyEnvXmlUrl = jettyEnv.getURI().toURL();
+                    jettyEnvXmlResource = jettyEnv;
                 }
             }
         }
 
-        if (jettyEnvXmlUrl != null)
+        if (jettyEnvXmlResource != null)
         {
             synchronized (localContextRoot.getRoot())
             {
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ public class EnvConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
                 try
                 {
                     localContextRoot.getRoot().addListener(listener);
-                    XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(jettyEnvXmlUrl);
+                    XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(jettyEnvXmlResource);
                     configuration.setJettyStandardIdsAndProperties(context.getServer(), null);
                     WebAppClassLoader.runWithServerClassAccess(()->{configuration.configure(context);return null;});
                 }
diff --git a/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/PreconfigureQuickStartWar.java b/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/PreconfigureQuickStartWar.java
index a412cdd063f..6dd531ead1f 100644
--- a/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/PreconfigureQuickStartWar.java
+++ b/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/PreconfigureQuickStartWar.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public class PreconfigureQuickStartWar
         {
             if (xml.isDirectory() || !xml.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH).endsWith(".xml"))
                 error("Bad context.xml: "+xml);
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(xml.getURI());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(xml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webapp);
         }
         webapp.setResourceBase(dir.getFile().getAbsolutePath());
diff --git a/jetty-runner/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/runner/Runner.java b/jetty-runner/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/runner/Runner.java
index 76ad8c155b2..cb28acd362d 100644
--- a/jetty-runner/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/runner/Runner.java
+++ b/jetty-runner/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/runner/Runner.java
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ public class Runner
                             for (String cfg : _configFiles) 
                             {
                                 try (Resource resource = Resource.newResource(cfg)) {
-                                    XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(resource.getURI());
+                                    XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(resource);
                                     xmlConfiguration.configure(_server);
                                 }
                             }
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ public class Runner
                         if (!ctx.isDirectory() && ctx.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH).endsWith(".xml"))
                         {
                             // It is a context config file
-                            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(ctx.getURI());
+                            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(ctx);
                             xmlConfiguration.getIdMap().put("Server", _server);
                             ContextHandler handler = (ContextHandler) xmlConfiguration.configure();
                             if (contextPathSet)
diff --git a/jetty-spring/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringConfigurationProcessor.java b/jetty-spring/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringConfigurationProcessor.java
index cc8a7ba7143..646e1440a0a 100644
--- a/jetty-spring/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringConfigurationProcessor.java
+++ b/jetty-spring/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringConfigurationProcessor.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.spring;
 
-import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -69,18 +68,25 @@ public class SpringConfigurationProcessor implements ConfigurationProcessor
     private String _main;
 
     @Override
-    public void init(URL url, XmlParser.Node config, XmlConfiguration configuration)
+    public void init(org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource jettyResource, XmlParser.Node config, XmlConfiguration configuration)
     {
         try
         {
             _configuration = configuration;
 
-            Resource resource = url != null
-                    ? new UrlResource(url)
-                    : new ByteArrayResource(("" +
-                    "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" +
-                    "<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC \"-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN\" \"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd\">" +
-                    config).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            Resource springResource;
+
+            if (jettyResource != null)
+            {
+                springResource = new UrlResource(jettyResource.getURI());
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                springResource = new ByteArrayResource(("" +
+                        "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" +
+                        "<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC \"-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN\" \"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd\">" +
+                        config).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            }
 
             _beanFactory = new DefaultListableBeanFactory()
             {
@@ -92,7 +98,7 @@ public class SpringConfigurationProcessor implements ConfigurationProcessor
                 }
             };
 
-            new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(_beanFactory).loadBeanDefinitions(resource);
+            new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(_beanFactory).loadBeanDefinitions(springResource);
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
diff --git a/jetty-spring/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringXmlConfigurationTest.java b/jetty-spring/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringXmlConfigurationTest.java
index 6e7bd866c9e..40e4f4deb2e 100644
--- a/jetty-spring/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringXmlConfigurationTest.java
+++ b/jetty-spring/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/spring/SpringXmlConfigurationTest.java
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.spring;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeTrue;
-
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -29,16 +26,20 @@ import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeTrue;
+
 public class SpringXmlConfigurationTest
 {
     protected String _configure="org/eclipse/jetty/spring/configure.xml";
 
     @BeforeEach
-    public void init() throws Exception
+    public void init()
     {
         // Jetty's XML configuration will make use of java.util.ServiceLoader
         // to load the proper ConfigurationProcessorFactory, so these tests
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ public class SpringXmlConfigurationTest
         TestConfiguration.VALUE=77;
 
         URL url = SpringXmlConfigurationTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource(_configure);
-        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(url));
 
         Map<String,String> properties = new HashMap<>();
         properties.put("test", "xxx");
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ public class SpringXmlConfigurationTest
 
         URL url = SpringXmlConfigurationTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource(_configure);
         final AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger(0);
-        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url)
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(url))
         {
             @Override
             public void initializeDefaults(Object object)
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public class SpringXmlConfigurationTest
     public void testJettyXml() throws Exception
     {
         URL url = SpringXmlConfigurationTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource("org/eclipse/jetty/spring/jetty.xml");
-        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(url));
 
         Server server = (Server)configuration.configure();
 
diff --git a/jetty-webapp/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/JettyWebXmlConfiguration.java b/jetty-webapp/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/JettyWebXmlConfiguration.java
index e0d5a3b14fa..a6963dddc79 100644
--- a/jetty-webapp/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/JettyWebXmlConfiguration.java
+++ b/jetty-webapp/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/JettyWebXmlConfiguration.java
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class JettyWebXmlConfiguration extends AbstractConfiguration
 
                 Object xml_attr=context.getAttribute(XML_CONFIGURATION);
                 context.removeAttribute(XML_CONFIGURATION);
-                final XmlConfiguration jetty_config = xml_attr instanceof XmlConfiguration?(XmlConfiguration)xml_attr:new XmlConfiguration(jetty.getURI().toURL());
+                final XmlConfiguration jetty_config = xml_attr instanceof XmlConfiguration?(XmlConfiguration)xml_attr:new XmlConfiguration(jetty);
 
                 setupXmlConfiguration(context, jetty_config, web_inf);
 
diff --git a/jetty-websocket/websocket-core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/core/client/XmlHttpClientProvider.java b/jetty-websocket/websocket-core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/core/client/XmlHttpClientProvider.java
index dafd14d5bd5..e0539fc51d8 100644
--- a/jetty-websocket/websocket-core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/core/client/XmlHttpClientProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-websocket/websocket-core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/core/client/XmlHttpClientProvider.java
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.client;
 
-import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URL;
 
 import org.eclipse.jetty.client.HttpClient;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
 class XmlHttpClientProvider implements HttpClientProvider
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ class XmlHttpClientProvider implements HttpClientProvider
         {
             return null;
         }
-
-        try (InputStream in = resource.openStream())
+        
+        try
         {
-            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(in);
-            return (HttpClient)configuration.configure();
+            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(resource));
+            return (HttpClient) configuration.configure();
         }
         catch (Throwable t)
         {
diff --git a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/ConfigurationProcessor.java b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/ConfigurationProcessor.java
index c67b25899dc..1262e44df63 100644
--- a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/ConfigurationProcessor.java
+++ b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/ConfigurationProcessor.java
@@ -18,21 +18,28 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.xml;
 
-import java.net.URL;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 
 /**
  * A ConfigurationProcessor for non XmlConfiguration format files.
  * <p>
  * A file in non-XmlConfiguration file format may be processed by a {@link ConfigurationProcessor}
  * instance that is returned from a {@link ConfigurationProcessorFactory} instance discovered by the
- * <code>ServiceLoader</code> mechanism.  This is used to allow spring configuration files to be used instead of 
- * jetty.xml
- *
+ * {@code ServiceLoader} mechanism.  This is used to allow spring configuration files to be used instead of
+ * {@code jetty.xml}
  */
 public interface ConfigurationProcessor
 {
-    public void init(URL url, XmlParser.Node root, XmlConfiguration configuration);
-    
-    public Object configure( Object obj) throws Exception;
-    public Object configure() throws Exception;
+    /**
+     * Initialize a ConfigurationProcessor from provided Resource and XML
+     *
+     * @param resource the resource being read
+     * @param root the parsed XML root node for the resource
+     * @param configuration the configuration being used (typically for ref IDs)
+     */
+    void init(Resource resource, XmlParser.Node root, XmlConfiguration configuration);
+
+    Object configure(Object obj) throws Exception;
+
+    Object configure() throws Exception;
 }
diff --git a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfiguration.java b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfiguration.java
index c84df5530bf..8f35c4b343b 100644
--- a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfiguration.java
+++ b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfiguration.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package org.eclipse.jetty.xml;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
-import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
@@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.LifeCycle;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 /**
@@ -101,13 +98,13 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
 
     private static XmlParser initParser()
     {
+        ClassLoader loader = XmlConfiguration.class.getClassLoader();
         XmlParser parser = new XmlParser();
 
-        Class<?> klass = XmlConfiguration.class;
-        URL config60 = klass.getResource("configure_6_0.dtd");
-        URL config76 = klass.getResource("configure_7_6.dtd");
-        URL config90 = klass.getResource("configure_9_0.dtd");
-        URL config93 = klass.getResource("configure_9_3.dtd");
+        URL config60 = loader.getResource("configure_6_0.dtd");
+        URL config76 = loader.getResource("configure_7_6.dtd");
+        URL config90 = loader.getResource("configure_9_0.dtd");
+        URL config93 = loader.getResource("configure_9_3.dtd");
         parser.redirectEntity("configure.dtd",config93);
         parser.redirectEntity("configure_1_0.dtd",config60);
         parser.redirectEntity("configure_1_1.dtd",config60);
@@ -185,81 +182,38 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
 
     private final Map<String, Object> _idMap = new HashMap<>();
     private final Map<String, String> _propertyMap = new HashMap<>();
-    private final URL _url;
+    private final Resource _location;
     private final String _dtd;
     private ConfigurationProcessor _processor;
 
     /**
      * Reads and parses the XML configuration file.
      *
-     * @param configuration the URL of the XML configuration
+     * @param resource the Resource to the XML configuration
      * @throws IOException if the configuration could not be read
      * @throws SAXException if the configuration could not be parsed
      */
-    public XmlConfiguration(URL configuration) throws SAXException, IOException
+    public XmlConfiguration(Resource resource) throws SAXException, IOException
     {
         synchronized (__parser)
         {
-            _url = configuration;
-            setConfig(__parser.parse(configuration.toString()));
+            _location = resource;
+            try(InputStream inputStream = resource.getInputStream())
+            {
+                setConfig(__parser.parse(inputStream));
+            }
             _dtd = __parser.getDTD();
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Reads and parses the XML configuration file.
-     *
-     * @param configuration the URI of the XML configuration
-     * @throws IOException if the configuration could not be read
-     * @throws SAXException if the configuration could not be parsed
-     */
-    public XmlConfiguration(URI configuration) throws SAXException, IOException
+    @Override
+    public String toString()
     {
-        synchronized (__parser)
+        if (_location == null)
         {
-            _url=configuration.toURL();
-            setConfig(__parser.parse(configuration.toString()));
-            _dtd=__parser.getDTD();
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Reads and parses the XML configuration string.
-     *
-     * @param configuration String of XML configuration commands excluding the normal XML preamble.
-     * The String should start with a "&lt;Configure ....&gt;" element.
-     * @throws IOException if the configuration could not be read
-     * @throws SAXException if the configuration could not be parsed
-     */
-    public XmlConfiguration(String configuration) throws SAXException, IOException
-    {
-        configuration = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC \"-//Jetty//Configure//EN\" \"https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd\">"
-                            + configuration;
-        InputSource source = new InputSource(new StringReader(configuration));
-        synchronized (__parser)
-        {
-            _url = null;
-            setConfig(__parser.parse(source));
-            _dtd = __parser.getDTD();
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Reads and parses the XML configuration stream.
-     *
-     * @param configuration An input stream containing a complete configuration file
-     * @throws IOException if the configuration could not be read
-     * @throws SAXException if the configuration could not be parsed
-     */
-    public XmlConfiguration(InputStream configuration) throws SAXException, IOException
-    {
-        InputSource source = new InputSource(configuration);
-        synchronized (__parser)
-        {
-            _url = null;
-            setConfig(__parser.parse(source));
-            _dtd = __parser.getDTD();
+            return "UNKNOWN-LOCATION";
         }
+        return _location.toString();
     }
 
     private void setConfig(XmlParser.Node config)
@@ -283,7 +237,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
         {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown XML tag:" + config.getTag());
         }
-        _processor.init(_url, config, this);
+        _processor.init(_location, config, this);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -358,14 +312,12 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
 
     private static class JettyXmlConfiguration implements ConfigurationProcessor
     {
-        private String _url;
         XmlParser.Node _root;
         XmlConfiguration _configuration;
 
         @Override
-        public void init(URL url, XmlParser.Node root, XmlConfiguration configuration)
+        public void init(Resource resource, XmlParser.Node root, XmlConfiguration configuration)
         {
-            _url = url == null ? null : url.toString();
             _root = root;
             _configuration = configuration;
         }
@@ -378,7 +330,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
             if (oClass != null && !oClass.isInstance(obj))
             {
                 String loaders = (oClass.getClassLoader() == obj.getClass().getClassLoader()) ? "" : "Object Class and type Class are from different loaders.";
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Object of class '" + obj.getClass().getCanonicalName() + "' is not of type '" + oClass.getCanonicalName() + "'. " + loaders + " in " + _url);
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Object of class '" + obj.getClass().getCanonicalName() + "' is not of type '" + oClass.getCanonicalName() + "'. " + loaders + " in " + _configuration);
             }
             String id = _root.getAttribute("id");
             if (id != null)
@@ -430,7 +382,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
                 }
                 catch (NoSuchMethodException x)
                 {
-                    throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("No constructor %s(%s,%s) in %s", oClass, arguments, namedArgMap, _url));
+                    throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("No constructor %s(%s,%s) in %s", oClass, arguments, namedArgMap, _configuration));
                 }
             }
             if (id != null)
@@ -522,12 +474,12 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
                             envObj(node);
                             break;
                         default:
-                            throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown tag: " + tag + " in " + _url);
+                            throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown tag: " + tag + " in " + _configuration);
                     }
                 }
                 catch (Exception e)
                 {
-                    LOG.warn("Config error at " + node, e.toString() + " in " + _url);
+                    LOG.warn("Config error at " + node, e.toString() + " in " + _configuration);
                     throw e;
                 }
             }
@@ -703,7 +655,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
         {
             Object result = constructor.newInstance(args);
             if (constructor.getAnnotation(Deprecated.class) != null)
-                LOG.warn("Deprecated constructor {} in {}", constructor, _url);
+                LOG.warn("Deprecated constructor {} in {}", constructor, _configuration);
             return result;
         }
 
@@ -711,7 +663,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
         {
             Object result = method.invoke(obj, args);
             if (method.getAnnotation(Deprecated.class) != null)
-                LOG.warn("Deprecated method {} in {}", method, _url);
+                LOG.warn("Deprecated method {} in {}", method, _configuration);
             return result;
         }
 
@@ -719,7 +671,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
         {
             Object result = field.get(object);
             if (field.getAnnotation(Deprecated.class) != null)
-                LOG.warn("Deprecated field {} in {}", field, _url);
+                LOG.warn("Deprecated field {} in {}", field, _configuration);
             return result;
         }
 
@@ -727,7 +679,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
         {
             field.set(obj, arg);
             if (field.getAnnotation(Deprecated.class) != null)
-                LOG.warn("Deprecated field {} in {}", field, _url);
+                LOG.warn("Deprecated field {} in {}", field, _configuration);
         }
 
         /**
@@ -1545,7 +1497,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
             if ("Env".equals(tag))
                 return envObj(node);
 
-            LOG.warn("Unknown value tag: " + node, new Throwable());
+            LOG.warn("Unknown value tag: " + node + " in " + _configuration, new Throwable());
             return null;
         }
 
@@ -1754,7 +1706,7 @@ public class XmlConfiguration
                 {
                     if (!arg.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH).endsWith(".properties") && (arg.indexOf('=') < 0))
                     {
-                        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(arg).getURI().toURL());
+                        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(arg));
                         if (last != null)
                             configuration.getIdMap().putAll(last.getIdMap());
                         if (properties.size() > 0)
diff --git a/jetty-xml/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfigurationTest.java b/jetty-xml/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfigurationTest.java
index c3e1cb5761d..70d86d773ec 100644
--- a/jetty-xml/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfigurationTest.java
+++ b/jetty-xml/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlConfigurationTest.java
@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.xml;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -33,13 +34,19 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.MavenTestingUtils;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.jupiter.WorkDir;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.jupiter.WorkDirExtension;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
@@ -53,8 +60,11 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
+@ExtendWith(WorkDirExtension.class)
 public class XmlConfigurationTest
 {
+    public WorkDir workDir;
+
     protected String[] _configure=new String [] {"org/eclipse/jetty/xml/configureWithAttr.xml","org/eclipse/jetty/xml/configureWithElements.xml"};
 
     private static final String STRING_ARRAY_XML = "<Array type=\"String\"><Item type=\"String\">String1</Item><Item type=\"String\">String2</Item></Array>";
@@ -64,7 +74,8 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     public void testMortBay() throws Exception
     {
         URL url = XmlConfigurationTest.class.getResource("mortbay.xml");
-        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+        Resource resource = Resource.newResource(url);
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(resource);
         configuration.configure();
     }
 
@@ -77,7 +88,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
             properties.put("whatever", "xxx");
             TestConfiguration.VALUE=77;
             URL url = XmlConfigurationTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource(configure);
-            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(url));
             TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration("tc");
             configuration.getProperties().putAll(properties);
             configuration.configure(tc);
@@ -156,7 +167,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
             
             URL url = XmlConfigurationTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource(configure);
             final AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger(0);
-            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(url)
+            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(Resource.newResource(url))
             {
                 @Override
                 public void initializeDefaults(Object object)
@@ -236,18 +247,26 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
         }
     }
 
+    public XmlConfiguration asXmlConfiguration(String rawXml) throws IOException, SAXException
+    {
+        Path testFile = workDir.getEmptyPathDir().resolve("raw.xml");
+        try(BufferedWriter writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(testFile, UTF_8))
+        {
+            writer.write(rawXml);
+        }
+        return new XmlConfiguration(new PathResource(testFile));
+    }
 
     @Test
     public void testGetClass() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration configuration =
-            new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\"><Get name=\"class\"/></Set></Configure>");
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\"><Get name=\"class\"/></Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         configuration.configure(tc);
         assertEquals(TestConfiguration.class,tc.testObject);
         
         configuration =
-            new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\"><Get class=\"java.lang.String\" name=\"class\"><Get id=\"simple\" name=\"simpleName\"/></Get></Set></Configure>");
+            asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\"><Get class=\"java.lang.String\" name=\"class\"><Get id=\"simple\" name=\"simpleName\"/></Get></Set></Configure>");
         configuration.configure(tc);
         assertEquals(String.class,tc.testObject);
         assertEquals("String",configuration.getIdMap().get("simple"));
@@ -256,8 +275,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testStringConfiguration() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration configuration =
-            new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\">SetValue</Set><Set name=\"Test\" type=\"int\">2</Set></Configure>");
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Test\">SetValue</Set><Set name=\"Test\" type=\"int\">2</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         configuration.configure(tc);
         assertEquals("SetValue", tc.testObject, "Set String 3");
@@ -267,8 +285,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testMeaningfullSetException() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration configuration =
-            new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"PropertyTest\"><Property name=\"null\"/></Set></Configure>");
+        XmlConfiguration configuration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"PropertyTest\"><Property name=\"null\"/></Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
 
         NoSuchMethodException e = assertThrows(NoSuchMethodException.class, () -> {
@@ -281,7 +298,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testListConstructorArg() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
                 + "<Set name=\"constructorArgTestClass\"><New class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.ConstructorArgTestClass\"><Arg type=\"List\">"
                 + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Arg></New></Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
@@ -294,7 +311,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testTwoArgumentListConstructorArg() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
                 + "<Set name=\"constructorArgTestClass\"><New class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.ConstructorArgTestClass\">"
                 + "<Arg type=\"List\">" + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Arg>"
                 + "<Arg type=\"List\">" + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Arg>"
@@ -309,7 +326,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testListNotContainingArray() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
                 + "<New class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.ConstructorArgTestClass\"><Arg type=\"List\">Some String</Arg></New></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
 
@@ -321,7 +338,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetConstructorArg() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
                 + "<Set name=\"constructorArgTestClass\"><New class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.ConstructorArgTestClass\"><Arg type=\"Set\">"
                 + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Arg></New></Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
@@ -334,7 +351,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetNotContainingArray() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">"
                 + "<New class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.ConstructorArgTestClass\"><Arg type=\"Set\">Some String</Arg></New></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, ()->{
@@ -345,7 +362,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testListSetterWithStringArray() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"List\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"List\">"
                 + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getList() returns null as it's not configured yet",tc.getList(),is(nullValue()));
@@ -356,7 +373,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testListSetterWithPrimitiveArray() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"List\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"List\">"
                 + INT_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getList() returns null as it's not configured yet",tc.getList(),is(nullValue()));
@@ -367,7 +384,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNotSupportedLinkedListSetter() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"LinkedList\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"LinkedList\">"
                 + INT_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getSet() returns null as it's not configured yet", tc.getList(), is(nullValue()));
@@ -379,7 +396,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testArrayListSetter() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"ArrayList\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"ArrayList\">"
                 + INT_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getSet() returns null as it's not configured yet", tc.getList(), is(nullValue()));
@@ -390,7 +407,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetSetter() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Set\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Set\">"
                 + STRING_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getSet() returns null as it's not configured yet", tc.getSet(), is(nullValue()));
@@ -401,7 +418,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetSetterWithPrimitiveArray() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Set\">"
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\"><Set name=\"Set\">"
                 + INT_ARRAY_XML + "</Set></Configure>");
         TestConfiguration tc = new TestConfiguration();
         assertThat("tc.getSet() returns null as it's not configured yet", tc.getSet(), is(nullValue()));
@@ -412,7 +429,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testMap() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">" +
                 "    <Set name=\"map\">" +
                 "        <Map>" +
@@ -436,7 +453,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testConstructorNamedInjection() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg>arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -453,7 +470,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testConstructorNamedInjectionOrdered() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg name=\"second\">arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -470,7 +487,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testConstructorNamedInjectionUnOrdered() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg name=\"third\">arg3</Arg>  " +
@@ -487,7 +504,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testConstructorNamedInjectionOrderedMixed() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -504,7 +521,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testConstructorNamedInjectionUnorderedMixed() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"third\">arg3</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -521,7 +538,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNestedConstructorNamedInjection() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg>arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -549,7 +566,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNestedConstructorNamedInjectionOrdered() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg name=\"second\">arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -576,7 +593,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNestedConstructorNamedInjectionUnOrdered() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg name=\"third\">arg3</Arg>  " +
@@ -603,7 +620,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNestedConstructorNamedInjectionOrderedMixed() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"first\">arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -630,7 +647,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testArgumentsGetIgnoredMissingDTD() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(new ByteArrayInputStream(("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg>arg1</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -642,8 +659,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
                 "      <Arg>arg3</Arg>\n" + 
                 "    </New>" +
                 "  </Set>" +
-                "</Configure>").getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1)));
-//        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+                "</Configure>");
 
         AnnotatedTestConfiguration atc = (AnnotatedTestConfiguration)xmlConfiguration.configure();
 
@@ -658,7 +674,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetGetIgnoredMissingDTD() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(new ByteArrayInputStream(("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\">arg1</Set>  " +
                 "  <Set name=\"second\">arg2</Set>  " +
@@ -670,8 +686,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
                 "      <Set name=\"third\">arg3</Set>  " +
                 "    </New>" +
                 "  </Set>" +
-                "</Configure>").getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
-//        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(url);
+                "</Configure>");
 
         DefaultTestConfiguration atc = (DefaultTestConfiguration)xmlConfiguration.configure();
 
@@ -686,7 +701,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testNestedConstructorNamedInjectionUnorderedMixed() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.AnnotatedTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Arg name=\"third\">arg3</Arg>  " +
                 "  <Arg>arg2</Arg>  " +
@@ -751,7 +766,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetBooleanTrue() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"boolean\">true</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -763,7 +778,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetBooleanFalse() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"boolean\">false</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -776,7 +791,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Disabled
     public void testSetBadBoolean() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"boolean\">tru</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -788,7 +803,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetBadInteger() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"integer\">bad</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -801,7 +816,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetBadExtraInteger() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"integer\">100 bas</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -814,7 +829,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     @Test
     public void testSetBadFloatInteger() throws Exception
     {
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfigurationTest$NativeHolder\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"integer\">1.5</Set>" +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -829,7 +844,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
         // No properties
         String defolt = "baz";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\"><Property name=\"wibble\" deprecated=\"foo,bar\" default=\"" + defolt + "\"/></Set>  " +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -842,7 +857,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
         String name = "foo";
         String value = "foo";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\"><Property name=\"" + name + "\" deprecated=\"other,bar\" default=\"baz\"/></Set>  " +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -856,7 +871,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
         String name = "bar";
         String value = "bar";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\"><Property name=\"foo\" deprecated=\"" + name + "\" default=\"baz\"/></Set>  " +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -870,7 +885,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
         String name = "bar";
         String value = "bar";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\"><Property name=\"foo\" deprecated=\"other," + name + "\" default=\"baz\"/></Set>  " +
                 "</Configure>");
@@ -884,7 +899,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
         String name = "bar";
         String value = "bar";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\">" +
                 "  <Property>  " +
@@ -907,7 +922,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
         String value = "bar";
         String defaultValue = "_<Property name=\"bar\"/>_<Property name=\"bar\"/>_";
         String expectedValue = "_" + value + "_" + value + "_";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\">" +
                 "    <Property>" +
@@ -925,7 +940,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     public void testPropertyNotFoundWithPropertyInDefaultValueNotFoundWithDefault() throws Exception
     {
         String value = "bar";
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
                 "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.DefaultTestConfiguration\">" +
                 "  <Set name=\"first\">" +
                 "    <Property name=\"not_found\">" +
@@ -948,7 +963,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
         for(String propName: propNames)
         {
             XmlConfiguration configuration =
-                    new XmlConfiguration("" +
+                    asXmlConfiguration("" +
                             "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">" +
                             "  <Set name=\"TestString\">" +
                             "    <Property name=\"" + propName + "\"/>" +
@@ -976,7 +991,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
         for(String propName: propNames)
         {
             XmlConfiguration configuration =
-                    new XmlConfiguration("" +
+                    asXmlConfiguration("" +
                             "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">" +
                             "  <Set name=\"TestString\">" +
                             "    <Property name=\"" + propName + "\"/>" +
@@ -998,7 +1013,7 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
     {
     	Path war = MavenTestingUtils.getTargetPath("no.war");
     	XmlConfiguration configuration =
-                new XmlConfiguration("" +
+                asXmlConfiguration("" +
                         "<Configure class=\"org.eclipse.jetty.xml.TestConfiguration\">" +
                         "  <Set name=\"TestString\">" +
                         "    <Property name=\"" + "jetty.webapps.uri" + "\"/>" +
@@ -1012,12 +1027,12 @@ public class XmlConfigurationTest
 
         assertThat("jetty.webapps.uri", tc.getTestString(), is(XmlConfiguration.normalizeURI(war.getParent().toUri().toString())));
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testDeprecated() throws Exception
     {
         Class<?> testClass = AnnotatedTestConfiguration.class;
-        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration("" +
+        XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = asXmlConfiguration("" +
             "<Configure class=\"" + testClass.getName() + "\">" +
             "  <Set name=\"deprecated\">foo</Set>" +
             "  <Set name=\"obsolete\">" +
diff --git a/scripts/release-jetty.sh b/scripts/release-jetty.sh
index eeddd4ab3dd..57ae4c9afbd 100755
--- a/scripts/release-jetty.sh
+++ b/scripts/release-jetty.sh
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ VER_CURRENT=`sed -e "s/xmlns/ignore/" pom.xml | xmllint --xpath "/project/versio
 echo "Current pom.xml Version: ${VER_CURRENT}"
 read -e -p "Release Version  ? " VER_RELEASE
 read -e -p "Next Dev Version ? " VER_NEXT
-# VER_RELEASE=9.3.5.v20151012
-# VER_NEXT=9.3.6-SNAPSHOT
 TAG_NAME="jetty-$VER_RELEASE"
 
 # Ensure tag doesn't exist (yet)
@@ -89,9 +87,12 @@ if [ ! -d "$ALT_DEPLOY_DIR" ] ; then
 fi
 
 # DEPLOY_OPTS="-Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true"
-DEPLOY_OPTS="-Dtest=None"
+DEPLOY_OPTS="-DskipTests -Dtest=None"
 # DEPLOY_OPTS="$DEPLOY_OPTS -DaltDeploymentRepository=intarget::default::file://$ALT_DEPLOY_DIR/"
 
+# Uncomment for Java 1.7
+export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1g -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"
+
 echo ""
 echo "-----------------------------------------------"
 echo "  Release Plan Review"
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ echo "Current Version  : $VER_CURRENT"
 echo "Release Version  : $VER_RELEASE"
 echo "Next Dev Version : $VER_NEXT"
 echo "Tag name         : $TAG_NAME"
+echo "MAVEN_OPTS       : $MAVEN_OPTS"
 echo "Maven Deploy Opts: $DEPLOY_OPTS"
 
 reportMavenTestFailures() {
@@ -130,13 +132,20 @@ echo ""
 if proceedyn "Are you sure you want to release using above? (y/N)" n; then
     echo ""
     if proceedyn "Update VERSION.txt for $VER_RELEASE? (Y/n)" y; then
+        # Uncomment alternate JVM for jetty 9.2 builds
+        # JAVA_HOME_ORIG=$JAVA_HOME
+        # PATH_ORIG=$PATH
+        # JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_171.jdk/Contents/Home
+        # PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
         mvn -N -Pupdate-version generate-resources
         cp VERSION.txt VERSION.txt.backup
         cat VERSION.txt.backup | sed -e "s/$VER_CURRENT/$VER_RELEASE/" > VERSION.txt
         rm VERSION.txt.backup
+        # JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME_ORIG
+        # PATH=$PATH_ORIG
         echo "VERIFY the following files (in a different console window) before continuing."
         echo "   VERSION.txt - top section"
-        echo "   target/vers-tag.txt - for the tag commit message"
+        echo "   target/version-tag.txt - for the tag commit message"
     fi
 
     # This is equivalent to 'mvn release:prepare'
@@ -151,8 +160,8 @@ if proceedyn "Are you sure you want to release using above? (y/N)" n; then
     fi
     if proceedyn "Create Tag $TAG_NAME? (Y/n)" y; then
         echo "TODO: Sign tags with GIT_USER_EMAIL=$GIT_USER_EMAIL"
-        echo "Using target/vers-tag.txt as tag text"
-        git tag --file=target/vers-tag.txt $TAG_NAME
+        echo "Using target/version-tag.txt as tag text"
+        git tag --file=target/version-tag.txt $TAG_NAME
     fi
 
     # This is equivalent to 'mvn release:perform'
@@ -170,9 +179,10 @@ if proceedyn "Are you sure you want to release using above? (y/N)" n; then
         echo "" >> VERSION.txt
         cat VERSION.txt.backup >> VERSION.txt
         echo "Update project.versions for $VER_NEXT"
-        mvn org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.1:set \
+        mvn org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.7:set \
             -DoldVersion="$VER_RELEASE" \
-            -DnewVersion="$VER_NEXT"
+            -DnewVersion="$VER_NEXT" \
+            -DprocessAllModules=true 
         echo "Commit $VER_NEXT"
         if proceedyn "Commit updates in working directory for $VER_NEXT? (Y/n)" y; then
             git commit -a -m "Updating to version $VER_NEXT"
diff --git a/tests/test-integration/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/test/support/XmlBasedJettyServer.java b/tests/test-integration/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/test/support/XmlBasedJettyServer.java
index a857b21e7c6..1b471ec48ca 100644
--- a/tests/test-integration/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/test/support/XmlBasedJettyServer.java
+++ b/tests/test-integration/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/test/support/XmlBasedJettyServer.java
@@ -18,17 +18,12 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.test.support;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
-
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -41,15 +36,21 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.NetworkConnector;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.PathResource;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;
 
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
 /**
  * Allows for setting up a Jetty server for testing based on XML configuration files.
  */
 public class XmlBasedJettyServer
 {
     private static final Logger LOG = Log.getLogger(XmlBasedJettyServer.class);
-    private List<URL> _xmlConfigurations;
+    private List<Resource> _xmlConfigurations;
     private final Map<String,String> _properties = new HashMap<>();
     private Server _server;
     private int _serverPort;
@@ -94,14 +95,14 @@ public class XmlBasedJettyServer
             _properties.put(String.valueOf(key),String.valueOf(properties.get(key)));
     }
 
-    public void addXmlConfiguration(URL xmlConfig)
+    public void addXmlConfiguration(Resource xmlConfig)
     {
         _xmlConfigurations.add(xmlConfig);
     }
 
-    public void addXmlConfiguration(File xmlConfigFile) throws MalformedURLException
+    public void addXmlConfiguration(File xmlConfigFile)
     {
-        _xmlConfigurations.add(xmlConfigFile.toURI().toURL());
+        _xmlConfigurations.add(new PathResource(xmlConfigFile));
     }
 
     public void addXmlConfiguration(String testConfigName) throws MalformedURLException
@@ -122,9 +123,9 @@ public class XmlBasedJettyServer
         // Configure everything
         for (int i = 0; i < this._xmlConfigurations.size(); i++)
         {
-            URL configURL = this._xmlConfigurations.get(i);
-            LOG.debug("configuring: "+configURL);
-            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(configURL);
+            Resource configResource = this._xmlConfigurations.get(i);
+            LOG.debug("configuring: "+configResource);
+            XmlConfiguration configuration = new XmlConfiguration(configResource);
             if (last != null)
             {
                 configuration.getIdMap().putAll(last.getIdMap());
diff --git a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/QuickStartTest.java b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/QuickStartTest.java
index b5d378ad0f3..971662cc225 100644
--- a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/QuickStartTest.java
+++ b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/QuickStartTest.java
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class QuickStartTest
         if (contextXml != null)
         {
             // System.err.println("Applying "+contextXml);
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml.getURI());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webapp);   
         }
         
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ public class QuickStartTest
         if (contextXml != null)
         {
             // System.err.println("Applying "+contextXml);
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml.getURI());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webapp);   
         }
         
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ public class QuickStartTest
         if (contextXml != null)
         {
             // System.err.println("Applying "+contextXml);
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml.getURI().toURL());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webapp);   
         }
         
diff --git a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/Quickstart.java b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/Quickstart.java
index c6c2a0a22fe..7b8cfcb6ac2 100644
--- a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/Quickstart.java
+++ b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/Quickstart.java
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ public class Quickstart
         //apply context xml file
         if (contextXml != null)
         {
-            // System.err.println("Applying "+contextXml);
-            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml.getURI());
+            XmlConfiguration xmlConfiguration = new XmlConfiguration(contextXml);
             xmlConfiguration.configure(webapp);   
         }