I thought so. [?]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Baz <[email protected]> wrote:

> What a beautiful solution.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Vince Bonfanti <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Two reasons:
>>
>>    1. GaeVFS, which is a plug-in to Apache Commons 
>> VFS<http://commons.apache.org/vfs/>,
>>    manages all of the parent/child relationships inherent in a hierarchical
>>    file system. Commons VFS also implements a pluggable caching scheme, and I
>>    was able to provide an implementation based on the GAE memcache API.
>>    2. GaeVFS handles "real" files on the local file system as well as
>>    "virtual" files that are stored in the Google datastore. This makes it 
>> easy
>>    to: (a) implement the "combined" file system we discussed previously; and,
>>    (b) write code that works the same whether running on GAE or a "regular"
>>    environment (one with a writeable file system). By re-implementing
>>    CFDIRECTORY and CFFILE on top of GaeVFS, they now work the same whether
>>    running within GAE or a "regular" environment (that is, no code that does:
>>    "if GAE then...else...").
>>
>> Vince
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Baz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> GaeVFS is built on top of the Google datastore
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah I thought it was a RAM based file-system. Just for my own edification,
>>> if cffile goes directly into the datastore, why the GaeVFS intermediete
>>> layer rather than just have cffile use JPA behind the scenes - or even
>>> implement your GoogleWrite() with the key filled out automatically as a
>>> path?
>>>
>>> Baz
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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