Try commons-vfs under the sandbox. You can't treat it as a java.io.File, but there is a seperate FileObject which abstractly represents a file from any given file system. Some of the supported filesystems include local, jar,zip,http,ftp,cifs (windows share),etc...
Comes with a nice set of ANT tasks as well. :) -----Original Message----- From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:49 PM To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: [general] Zip file proxy? Hello, Does anyone know of a doo-dad in Commons or somewhere that would allow me to use a .zip file (and other compressed format) as java.io.File /directory/. What I have found so far (can't recall now) only works if your code uses a whole framework of proxies/wrappers. Ideally, such a subclass of File should let me traverse the archive just as if it were a directory on disk, which would allow my current pile of File-based code to work as is. Thanks, Gary
