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| <document> |
| <properties> |
| <title>Commons Virtual File System</title> |
| <author email="jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</author> |
| </properties> |
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| <body> |
| <section name="Commons Virtual File System"> |
| |
| <p> |
| Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing |
| various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of |
| the files from various different sources, such as the files on |
| local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>Some of the features of Commons VFS are:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| A single consistent API for accessing files of different |
| types. |
| </li> |
| <li>Support for numerous |
| <a href="filesystems.html">file system types</a> |
| . |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM, |
| and optionally can cache remote file information on the |
| local file system. |
| </li> |
| <li>Event delivery.</li> |
| <li> |
| Support for logical file systems made up of files from |
| various different file systems. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications, |
| such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory. |
| </li> |
| <li>A set of VFS-enabled |
| <a href="anttasks.html">Ant tasks</a> |
| . |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Requirements"> |
| <p> |
| Commons VFS 2.0 requires Java 5. Many of the file systems require that optional components be present |
| in order for the protocol to be enabled. See the <a href="download.html">download and build</a> page for |
| information on the optional dependencies. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="News"> |
| <p> |
| Commons VFS 2.0 is now available. Support for FTPS and WebDav have been added in addition to many bugs |
| being fixed. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| </body> |
| </document> |
| |
