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It should be possible to create PathContent easily from string. For example, J2ME Wireless Toolkit provides its classpath as a string "c:\wtk\lib\midpapi.zip;c:\wtk\lib\ext\wma.zip;c:\wtk\lib\ext\mmap.jar" It is quite complicated to create a PathContent from this string in the current implementation and I think that it will be very often used by module writers.
probably not an issue any more, closing.