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VFS - Virtual File System

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.

Its homepage is located at: [http://commons.apache.org/vfs/].

Problems

What to do if access to a filesystem fails.

VfsProblems

Solutions

VfsCacheStrategy

FAQ

Lets start creating a FAQ:

  • VfsFaq
  • VfsCapabilitiesMatrix

Future

Stuff we will see in (one of) the next release(s):

VfsNext

Articles

  • [http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/30117 Extend the JDK Classes with Jakarta Commons, Part III] - Explore Jakarta Commons components that enable you to parse arguments in a command-line application, connect to various file systems at the same time, allow an application to uniformly access configurations loaded from various sources, and pool any object.

Related Projects

  • [http://vfsjfilechooser.sourceforge.net/ VFS JFileChooser] - A Java Swing component which browses local or remote locations using VFS

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