Schalk, It's my understanding that new providers in NIO2 are simply added using the ServiceLoader.
Cheers, Mark On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Schalk Cronj é <ysb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/04/2014 22:38, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > <snip/> > > But theoretically both is possible: consume FileSystems as a provider >> or implement an adapter which makes a VFS filesystem(manager) to >> provide the FileSystem SPI. >> > I have been playing with that and it looks possible, but it is far from > trivial. The meagre documentation or even lack of published success in > writing NIO2 providers shows that this is a road less travelled. I have > looked at the supplied ZIP example that comes with the JDK and IMHO still > very much prototype code. > > I think VFS has some things going for it that I could not see in NIO2 - > even something as simple as having two schemes for one provider. In > addition, adding providers on the fly is easy in VFS, by just calling > addProvider on FilesystemManager. From my initial investigation I could not > see a clear way of doing the equivalent in NIO2. There will be more things > like these, I am sure. > > I am very interesting in where this is going in future and the maintainer > of Groovy VFS, I have a vested interest. I might be interested to go to > Budapest in November if this gets discussed. > > <snip/> > > -- > Schalk W. Cronjé > @ysb33r > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
