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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

  • 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

  • VFS JFileChooser - A Java Swing component which browses local or remote locations using VFS
  • Dctm VFS - Provides a plugin for Commons VFS that allows you to access EMC Documentum as a filesystem.
  • VFS FTPServer - provides a Commons VFS implementation for the Apache FTPServer project

  • [http://code.google.com/p/gaevfs/|GaeVFS] - GaeVFS is an Apache Commons VFS plug-in that implements a distributed, writeable virtual file system for Google App Engine (GAE) for Java.

  • [http://commons-vfs-ui.sourceforge.net/|Commons VFS UI] - Commons VFS UI is a gui application for the Commons VFS implementation from Apache.

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