There is a lot of cases in the private code base I work with that use IFiles 
independently of the application model, but not so much in Apache Aries itself 
admittedly.

On 17 May 2011, at 12:46, Guillaume Nodet wrote:

> Which other piece would be a candidate for reusing this API ?  If
> there's a single piece of code using it, it's not really reused.
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 13:25, Valentin Mahrwald
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Right, let's have the discussion then :)
>> 
>> The arguments I can see for moving are along the lines of: The IFile API has 
>> really nothing much to do with the rest of the application model and putting 
>> it along side loads of application specific classes severely limits 
>> reusability. The util bundle would be an obvious choice to put things into, 
>> and I imagine it would not get to unwieldy with this change (although 
>> splitting it out entirely would also be fine from my point of view).
>> 
>> Reasons against it certainly would be the fact that this is a full scale 
>> breaking change.
>> 
>> Despite that I would propose to move things now and have it in place for the 
>> next 0.x or 1.0 release, rather than be stuck with it in the arguably wrong 
>> place.
>> 
>> What do people think?
>> 
>> Valentin
>> 
>> On 16 May 2011, at 20:11, Alasdair Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I would hold off on a move for now. We have a JIRA that mentions it, but I 
>>> think we should discuss it first.
>>> 
>>> Alasdair
>>> 
>>> Alasdair Nottingham
>>> 
>>> On 16 May 2011, at 11:46, "Valentin Mahrwald (JIRA)" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   [ 
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-652?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13033960#comment-13033960
>>>>  ]
>>>> 
>>>> Valentin Mahrwald commented on ARIES-652:
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>> 
>>>> Also, the IFile API should probably live in org.apache.aries.util (or even 
>>>> on its own) so it is reusable without the application API. Any objections?
>>>> 
>>>>> Improvements to IFile API
>>>>> -------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>>               Key: ARIES-652
>>>>>               URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-652
>>>>>           Project: Aries
>>>>>        Issue Type: Improvement
>>>>>        Components: Application
>>>>>          Reporter: Valentin Mahrwald
>>>>>          Assignee: Valentin Mahrwald
>>>>> 
>>>>> Currently the IFile API suffers from a number of capability / performance 
>>>>> problems:
>>>>> - it is not possible with the API to open a zipfile as an IDirectory if 
>>>>> the directory that contains the zipfile was opened as an IDirectory 
>>>>> already
>>>>> - it is not possible to open a zipfile nested in a zipfile with the API 
>>>>> at all
>>>>> - operation on zipfile IDirectories are an order of magnitude slower than 
>>>>> using zipfile directly because the zipfile is opened and closed for most 
>>>>> operations!
>>>> 
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>> 
> 
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