Blueprint context init fails with "Unknown protocol: profile" at container startup

Issue

When a bundle opens a resource with the "profile:" protocol, sometimes the following error is seen when starting the container:

Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: Unknown protocol: profile
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:630)[:1.7.0_101]
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:493)[:1.7.0_101]
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:442)[:1.7.0_101]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)[:1.7.0_101]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)[:1.7.0_101]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)[:1.7.0_101]
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)[:1.7.0_101]
    at org.apache.aries.blueprint.utils.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:331)[15:org.apache.aries.blueprint.core:1.4.4]
    at org.apache.aries.blueprint.container.AggregateConverter.createObject(AggregateConverter.java:319)[15:org.apache.aries.blueprint.core:1.4.4]
    ... 33 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown protocol: profile
    at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.parseURL(URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.java:373)
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:625)[:1.7.0_101]