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| <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="News"> |
| <p> |
| VFS is split into core, examples and sandbox now. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Due to some technical reasons we had to move the jcifs (smb) filesystem to |
| the sandbox. So if you need one of these filesystems you have to build VFS manually. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| To build VFS, it will be best to check-it-out from svn and use maven 2 to |
| build. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| And - we have a new filesystem: mime (read only for sure)<br/> |
| This filesystem allows you to read e-mails like archives, e.g. the attachments are the |
| children of the mail itself.<br /> |
| You'll find it in our sandbox. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Also notice that we now have a "3rd party plugins" page. It will list all external |
| plugins available for VFS.<br /> |
| You have such a beast - and will get listed? Just drop me a mail: imario -at- apache.org |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| </body> |
| </document> |
| |
