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| <title>Commons Virtual File System</title> |
| <author email="jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</author> |
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| <section name="Commons Virtual File System"> |
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| <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. |
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| <p>Some of the features of Commons VFS are:</p> |
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| 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> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="News"> |
| <p>2005-07-05 - imario@apache.org: RC2 - includes multi-threading fixes for ftp and webdav</p> |
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| <p>2005-06-29 - imario@apache.org: RC1</p> |
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| <p>2005-06-19 - imario@apache.org: Again refactored filename parsing. sftp now accepts files with space in their filename</p> |
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| <p>2005-05-24 - imario@apache.org: Moved VFS out of sandbox into proper. What a great day!</p> |
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| <p>2005-05 - imario@apache.org: Find the "How to setup a VFS Testserver" documentation in the developer area.</p> |
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| <p>2005-03 - imario@apache.org: easier configuration for plugins - see api section for details</p> |
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| <p>2005-03 - imario@apache.org: The filename parsing and api has changed. |
| <ul> |
| <li>Now it is needed to encode the '%' sign using '%25'</li> |
| <li>It is no longer needed to encode the '!' sign when using nested archives (tar, jar, ...).<br /> |
| Now you <u>can</u> encode it if you would like to use it in your filename</li> |
| <li>It is no longer needed to double-encode the filename when using layered names. <code>tar:tar:file:///</code></li> |
| <li>Depending on the filesystem special characters in your filename could automatically be encoded</li> |
| <li><code>FileName.resolveName(...)</code> has been moved to <code>FileSystemManager.resolveName(...)</code></li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
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| </document> |
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