After long time in the sandbox I would like to promote commons-vfs to commons proper.
There are many user requests to enter a release cycle and there is consent that VFS is stable enough to offer it.
(0) Rationale
commons-vfs allows a single api to access many different filesystem, A plugin system allows it to extend the system with 3rd party libraries without the need to touch the core.
(1) Scope of the Package
The scope of VFS is to use other libraries to access those filesystems and insert as less overhead as possible.
(1.1) Currently supported filesystems
local files ftp http webdav sftp samba temporary
- and files packaged in zip jar tar gzip bzip2
(1.2) Access modes (depending on the filesystem capabilities)
create, list, read, write, delete, rename, random access, attributes
(2) Interaction with other packages
VFS uses junit for its testing and requires a couple of servers (apache, ssh, samba, ...) to pass them. Release 1.0 relies on jdk 1.3 only, though I have plans to migrate to jdk 1.5 for a release 2.0 with backward compatibility to jdk 1.4 using retroweaver. BUT this ONLY happens if a foregoing vote succeed.
Also there is a list of required resources on http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/vfs/download.html Here the word "required" means "if the users would like to use a specific filesystem". If a library is missing VFS will not fail but do not provide its capabilities.
(3) Required jakarta-commons resources
SVN Repository
Mailing List commons-dev/commons-user. [VFS] prefixed in the subject line.
Bugzilla http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
(4) Initial committers Adam Murdoch adammurdoch -at- apache.org
James Strachan jstrachan -at- apache.org
Dion Gillard dion -at- apache.org
Mario Ivankovits imario -at- apache.org
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