I would be very happy if you could reference it from the Commons VFS web site as a 3rd party plug-in. (Yes, the GaeVFS jar does contain a vfs-providers.xml configuration, so there's no need to add it to providers.xml). On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote:
> > On May 30, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Vince Bonfanti wrote: > > The first public release (0.1) of GaeVFS is now available: >> >> http://gaevfs.appspot.com/ >> >> GaeVFS is a plug-in for Apache Commons VFS that implements a virtual file >> system on top of the Google App Engine for Java (GAE) datastore. It >> provides >> a writeable file system for GAE, since GAE does not allow writing to the >> local file system. GaeVFS is licensed under the Apache License, Version >> 2.0. >> >> GaeVFS includes a servlet (GaeVfsServlet) that allows you to: >> >> - upload files into GaeVFS >> - serve files from GaeVFS >> - (optionally) perform GaeVFS directory listings >> >> The goal of GaeVFS is to provide a portability layer that allows you to >> write application code to access the file system (both reads and writes) >> that runs unmodified in either the GAE or "traditional" Java servlet >> environments. >> >> Please let me know if you find this useful. >> > > This is kind of cool. My first thought was that it might be nice to include > it in VFS itself, but after looking at > http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html I have my doubts that > including this at Apache would be doable even as an optional component. > However, I see no reason it couldn't be referenced on the web site and added > to providers.xml to load if it is present. Unless, of course, someone else > has a different opinion. > > Ralph > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
