diff --git a/emjar-maven-plugin/README.md b/emjar-maven-plugin/README.md
index d8e5334..5e7fe57 100644
--- a/emjar-maven-plugin/README.md
+++ b/emjar-maven-plugin/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ Maven Plugin Mojo for building bundling jars that contain dependency artifact ja
 
 * bundleSuffix
 
-    Suffix appended to `finalName` when building output bundle name.  Defaults to `-emjar`.
+    Suffix appended to `finalName` when building output bundle name.
+    Defaults to `-emjar`.  (Due to the way pom files are parsed and
+    passed to plugins, an empty suffix cannot be directly configured.
+    Use the value `NONE` to indicate that no suffix should be
+    appended.)
 
 * explicitOrderings
 
diff --git a/emjar-maven-plugin/src/main/java/com/comoyo/maven/plugins/emjar/EmJarMojo.java b/emjar-maven-plugin/src/main/java/com/comoyo/maven/plugins/emjar/EmJarMojo.java
index 63f4b3f..43de3d9 100644
--- a/emjar-maven-plugin/src/main/java/com/comoyo/maven/plugins/emjar/EmJarMojo.java
+++ b/emjar-maven-plugin/src/main/java/com/comoyo/maven/plugins/emjar/EmJarMojo.java
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public class EmJarMojo
     private String finalName;
 
     /**
-     * Suffix for generated Java Archive file.
+     * Suffix for generated Java Archive file ("NONE" for none).
      *
      * @parameter
      *     property="bundleSuffix"
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ public class EmJarMojo
 
     private static final String CREATED_BY = "Created-By";
     private static final int CHUNK_SIZE = 16 * 1024;
+    private static final String NONE = "NONE";
 
     private final Map<Artifact, Map<Artifact, Set<String>>> conflicts = new HashMap<>();
     private final Map<String, Set<Artifact>> seen = new HashMap<>();
@@ -482,7 +483,8 @@ public void execute()
         throws MojoExecutionException
     {
         try {
-            final File outFile = new File(outputDirectory, finalName + bundleSuffix + ".jar");
+            final String suffix = NONE.equals(bundleSuffix) ? "" : bundleSuffix;
+            final File outFile = new File(outputDirectory, finalName + suffix + ".jar");
             getLog().info("Building jar: " + outFile.getPath());
             if (ignoreConflicts && conflictsFatal) {
                 throw new MojoExecutionException(
diff --git a/emjar/pom.xml b/emjar/pom.xml
index e6267c1..4184f89 100644
--- a/emjar/pom.xml
+++ b/emjar/pom.xml
@@ -53,5 +53,11 @@
       <version>${google.guava.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+      <version>4.4</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/emjar/src/main/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoader.java b/emjar/src/main/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoader.java
index b39f5fc..1453ac0 100644
--- a/emjar/src/main/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoader.java
+++ b/emjar/src/main/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoader.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.net.URLStreamHandlerFactory;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
@@ -72,15 +73,14 @@ public class EmJarClassLoader
 {
     public final static String EMJAR_LOG_QUIET_PROP = "emjar.log.quiet";
     public final static String EMJAR_LOG_DEBUG_PROP = "emjar.log.debug";
+    public final static String EMJAR_CLASS_PATH_PROP = "emjar.class.path";
+    public final static String JAVA_CLASS_PATH_PROP = "java.class.path";
 
     protected static boolean DEBUG = false;
     protected static boolean QUIET = false;
 
     public final static String SEPARATOR = "!/";
 
-    private final static HandlerFactory factory = new HandlerFactory();
-    private final static Handler handler = new Handler();
-
     static {
         try {
             ClassLoader.registerAsParallelCapable();
@@ -89,28 +89,45 @@ public class EmJarClassLoader
         }
     }
 
+    private EmJarClassLoader(
+            final Handler handler, final Properties props, final ClassLoader parent) {
+        super(getClassPath(props, handler), parent, new HandlerFactory(handler));
+    }
+
     public EmJarClassLoader()
     {
-        super(getClassPath(System.getProperties()), null, factory);
+        this(new Handler(), System.getProperties(), null);
     }
 
-    public EmJarClassLoader(ClassLoader parent)
+    public EmJarClassLoader(final ClassLoader parent)
     {
-        super(getClassPath(System.getProperties()), parent, factory);
+        this(new Handler(), System.getProperties(), parent);
     }
 
-    protected EmJarClassLoader(Properties props)
+    protected EmJarClassLoader(final Properties props)
     {
-        super(getClassPath(props), null, factory);
+        this(new Handler(), props, null);
     }
 
-    private static URL[] getClassPath(final Properties props)
+    private static URL[] getClassPath(final Properties props, final Handler handler)
     {
-        final String classPath = props.getProperty("java.class.path");
         QUIET = "true".equalsIgnoreCase(props.getProperty(EMJAR_LOG_QUIET_PROP, ""));
         DEBUG = "true".equalsIgnoreCase(props.getProperty(EMJAR_LOG_DEBUG_PROP, ""));
 
         final ArrayList<URL> urls = new ArrayList<>();
+        addClassPathUrls(props.getProperty(JAVA_CLASS_PATH_PROP), urls, handler);
+        addClassPathUrls(props.getProperty(EMJAR_CLASS_PATH_PROP), urls, handler);
+        if (DEBUG) {
+            System.err.println("EmJar: using classpath " + urls);
+        }
+        return urls.toArray(new URL[0]);
+    }
+
+    private static void addClassPathUrls(
+            final String classPath, final List<URL> urls, final Handler handler) {
+        if (classPath == null) {
+            return;
+        }
         for (String elem : classPath.split(File.pathSeparator)) {
             final File file = new File(elem);
             try {
@@ -142,10 +159,6 @@ private static URL[] getClassPath(final Properties props)
                 // Trying to get by on the classpath entries we can process.
             }
         }
-        if (DEBUG) {
-            System.err.println("EmJar: using classpath " + urls);
-        }
-        return urls.toArray(new URL[0]);
     }
 
     private static URL uriToUrl(URI uri, Handler handler)
@@ -160,16 +173,15 @@ private static URL uriToUrl(URI uri, Handler handler)
             handler);
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public Class<?> loadClass(String name)
-        throws ClassNotFoundException
-    {
-        return super.loadClass(name);
-    }
-
     private static class HandlerFactory
         implements URLStreamHandlerFactory
     {
+        private final Handler handler;
+
+        public HandlerFactory(final Handler handler) {
+            this.handler = handler;
+        }
+
         @Override
         public URLStreamHandler createURLStreamHandler(String protocol)
         {
@@ -244,6 +256,11 @@ protected URLConnection openConnection(URL url)
                         final String root = path.substring(0, i);
                         final String nested = path.substring(i + SEPARATOR.length(), j);
                         final String entry = path.substring(j + SEPARATOR.length());
+                        if (!nested.endsWith(".jar")) {
+                            final URL urlDefaultHandler
+                                = new URL(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getFile());
+                            return urlDefaultHandler.openConnection();
+                        }
 
                         Map<String, Map<String, OndemandEmbeddedJar.Descriptor>> rootJar
                             = rootJars.get(root);
@@ -260,13 +277,14 @@ protected URLConnection openConnection(URL url)
                         }
                         final Map<String, OndemandEmbeddedJar.Descriptor> descriptors
                             = rootJar.get(nested);
+                        final URL rootUrl = new URL("jar:file:" + root + SEPARATOR);
                         if (descriptors != null) {
                             conn = new OndemandEmbeddedJar.Connection(
-                                bundle.toURL(), root, descriptors, entry);
+                                rootUrl, root, descriptors, entry);
                         }
                         else {
                             conn = new PreloadedEmbeddedJar.Connection(
-                                bundle.toURL(), root, nested, entry);
+                                rootUrl, root, nested, entry);
                         }
                         connections.put(path, conn);
                     }
diff --git a/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoaderTest.java b/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoaderTest.java
index 06058da..54b07ed 100644
--- a/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoaderTest.java
+++ b/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarClassLoaderTest.java
@@ -19,13 +19,17 @@
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FilenameFilter;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.net.JarURLConnection;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
 import java.util.jar.JarFile;
 import java.util.jar.Manifest;
 
@@ -57,12 +61,49 @@ public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
         return new EmJarClassLoader(props);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * In order to construct a URL, getResourceAsStream ultimately
+     * calls sun.net.www.ParseUtil.encodePath().  This encodes the
+     * name's char array to UTF-8 under the assumption that it is
+     * UCS-2, not UTF-16.  Doing so causes bad encodings of non-BMP
+     * entities.  Java 7 was able to process these wrongly encoded
+     * strings and reconstruct the original char sequence, but Java 8
+     * is not.  Thus the following, which more or less replicates the
+     * functionality of getResourceAsStream in order to verify that at
+     * least EmJar's handling of unicode is up to snuff.
+     */
+    private static InputStream getResourceAsStreamRobust(
+            final URLClassLoader loader, final String searchName)
+            throws IOException {
+        for (final URL url : loader.getURLs()) {
+            if (!"jar".equals(url.getProtocol())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            final URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
+            if (!(conn instanceof JarURLConnection)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            final JarURLConnection jarConn = (JarURLConnection) conn;
+            final JarFile jarFile = jarConn.getJarFile();
+            final Enumeration<JarEntry> it = jarFile.entries();
+            while (it.hasMoreElements()) {
+                final JarEntry je = it.nextElement();
+                if (searchName.equals(je.getName())) {
+                    return jarFile.getInputStream(je);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testClassPathQuoting()
         throws Exception
     {
         final EmJarClassLoader loader = testLoader();
-        final InputStream is = loader.getResourceAsStream("entry-" + WEIRD + ".txt");
+        final String searchName = "entry-" + WEIRD + ".txt";
+        final InputStream is = getResourceAsStreamRobust(loader, searchName);
+        assertNotNull("Did not find " + searchName + "  in classpath", is);
         final BufferedReader entry = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
         assertEquals("Contents mismatch for weird entry", WEIRD, entry.readLine());
     }
diff --git a/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarTest.java b/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarTest.java
index afe9fca..876fe83 100644
--- a/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarTest.java
+++ b/emjar/src/test/java/com/comoyo/emjar/EmJarTest.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
 
 public abstract class EmJarTest
 {
@@ -28,7 +29,10 @@ protected File getResourceFile(String name)
         throws URISyntaxException
     {
         final ClassLoader cl = getClass().getClassLoader();
-        final URI uri = cl.getResource("com/comoyo/emjar/" + name).toURI();
+        final URI base = cl.getResource("com/comoyo/emjar/").toURI();
+        URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder(base);
+        builder.setPath(builder.getPath() + name);
+        final URI uri = builder.build();
         if (!"file".equals(uri.getScheme())) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                 "Resource " + name + " not present as file (" + uri + ")");
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index baa6676..0f9dd52 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.2.1</version>
+        <version>2.4</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>attach-sources</id>