diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
index 8acebff9ab4..cf33d422367 100644
--- a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ResourceUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ import java.net.URLConnection;
  *
  * <p>Consider using Spring's Resource abstraction in the core package
  * for handling all kinds of file resources in a uniform manner.
- * {@link org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader}'s {@code getResource}
+ * {@link org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader}'s {@code getResource()}
  * method can resolve any location to a {@link org.springframework.core.io.Resource}
- * object, which in turn allows to obtain a {@code java.io.File} in the
+ * object, which in turn allows one to obtain a {@code java.io.File} in the
  * file system through its {@code getFile()} method.
  *
  * <p>The main reason for these utility methods for resource location handling
  * is to support {@link Log4jConfigurer}, which must be able to resolve
  * resource locations <i>before the logging system has been initialized</i>.
- * Spring' Resource abstraction in the core package, on the other hand,
+ * Spring's {@code Resource} abstraction in the core package, on the other hand,
  * already expects the logging system to be available.
  *
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
@@ -66,15 +66,15 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 	/** URL protocol for an entry from a zip file: "zip" */
 	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_ZIP = "zip";
 
+	/** URL protocol for an entry from a WebSphere jar file: "wsjar" */
+	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_WSJAR = "wsjar";
+
 	/** URL protocol for an entry from a JBoss jar file: "vfszip" */
 	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_VFSZIP = "vfszip";
 
 	/** URL protocol for a JBoss VFS resource: "vfs" */
 	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_VFS = "vfs";
 
-	/** URL protocol for an entry from a WebSphere jar file: "wsjar" */
-	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_WSJAR = "wsjar";
-
 	/** URL protocol for an entry from an OC4J jar file: "code-source" */
 	public static final String URL_PROTOCOL_CODE_SOURCE = "code-source";
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 	/**
 	 * Resolve the given resource location to a {@code java.io.File},
 	 * i.e. to a file in the file system.
-	 * <p>Does not check whether the fil actually exists; simply returns
+	 * <p>Does not check whether the file actually exists; simply returns
 	 * the File that the given location would correspond to.
 	 * @param resourceLocation the resource location to resolve: either a
 	 * "classpath:" pseudo URL, a "file:" URL, or a plain file path
@@ -255,23 +255,22 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 	 */
 	public static boolean isFileURL(URL url) {
 		String protocol = url.getProtocol();
-		return (URL_PROTOCOL_FILE.equals(protocol) || protocol.startsWith(URL_PROTOCOL_VFS));
+		return (URL_PROTOCOL_FILE.equals(protocol) || URL_PROTOCOL_VFS.equals(protocol));
 	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Determine whether the given URL points to a resource in a jar file,
 	 * that is, has protocol "jar", "zip", "wsjar" or "code-source".
-	 * <p>"zip" and "wsjar" are used by BEA WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere, respectively,
-	 * but can be treated like jar files. The same applies to "code-source" URLs on Oracle
+	 * <p>"zip" and "wsjar" are used by WebLogic Server and WebSphere, respectively,
+	 * but can be treated like jar files. The same applies to "code-source" URLs on
 	 * OC4J, provided that the path contains a jar separator.
 	 * @param url the URL to check
 	 * @return whether the URL has been identified as a JAR URL
 	 */
 	public static boolean isJarURL(URL url) {
 		String protocol = url.getProtocol();
-		return (URL_PROTOCOL_JAR.equals(protocol) ||
-				URL_PROTOCOL_ZIP.equals(protocol) ||
-				URL_PROTOCOL_WSJAR.equals(protocol) ||
+		return (URL_PROTOCOL_JAR.equals(protocol) || URL_PROTOCOL_ZIP.equals(protocol) ||
+				URL_PROTOCOL_WSJAR.equals(protocol) || URL_PROTOCOL_VFSZIP.equals(protocol) ||
 				(URL_PROTOCOL_CODE_SOURCE.equals(protocol) && url.getPath().contains(JAR_URL_SEPARATOR)));
 	}
 
@@ -306,7 +305,7 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a URI instance for the given URL,
-	 * replacing spaces with "%20" quotes first.
+	 * replacing spaces with "%20" URI encoding first.
 	 * <p>Furthermore, this method works on JDK 1.4 as well,
 	 * in contrast to the {@code URL.toURI()} method.
 	 * @param url the URL to convert into a URI instance
@@ -320,7 +319,7 @@ public abstract class ResourceUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a URI instance for the given location String,
-	 * replacing spaces with "%20" quotes first.
+	 * replacing spaces with "%20" URI encoding first.
 	 * @param location the location String to convert into a URI instance
 	 * @return the URI instance
 	 * @throws URISyntaxException if the location wasn't a valid URI