Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Mladen Turk
Hi, I'm working for quite some time on the light-weight VFS layer (with the java.io.* as the only provider at the moment) to be used as the Tomcat's physical file system access. The ultimate goal is to be able to run the Tomcat on top of things like Hadoop or similar distributed file systems

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/10/2010 08:02, Mladen Turk wrote: Hi, I'm working for quite some time on the light-weight VFS layer (with the java.io.* as the only provider at the moment) to be used as the Tomcat's physical file system access. The ultimate goal is to be able to run the Tomcat on top of things like

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Mladen Turk
On 10/15/2010 09:58 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 15/10/2010 08:02, Mladen Turk wrote: Hi, I'm working for quite some time on the light-weight VFS layer (with the java.io.* as the only provider at the moment) to be used as the Tomcat's physical file system access. The ultimate goal is to be able

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Henri Gomez
2010/10/15 Mladen Turk mt...@apache.org: Hi, I'm working for quite some time on the light-weight VFS layer (with the java.io.* as the only provider at the moment) to be used as the Tomcat's physical file system access. The ultimate goal is to be able to run the Tomcat on top of things like

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Henri Gomez
I remembered Mladen and VFS discussion, elsewhere. Google confirmed it to me : http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-...@jakarta.apache.org/msg82888.html Your code is still http://apvfs.sourceforge.net/ ? - To unsubscribe,

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
Are you going to replace DirContext ? If yes - great, but please first send a quick summary comparing your API with the other VFS around in apache. I think commons has few targets, including a hdfs, I remember there are more. If no - not sure what's the point of replacing java.io impl, I assume

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Remy Maucherat
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 07:57 -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: I remember many years back I was arguing in favor of DirContext - pro arguments were it's a standard, bundled in JDK, probably more target implementations will be available, etc. I think Remy was arguing that it's too complex and not

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Mladen Turk
On 10/15/2010 04:57 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: Are you going to replace DirContext ? If yes - great, but please first send a quick summary comparing your API with the other VFS around in apache. I think commons has few targets, including a hdfs, I remember there are more. Well it's not a

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mladen Turk mt...@apache.org wrote: On 10/15/2010 04:57 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: Are you going to replace DirContext ? If yes - great, but please first send a quick summary comparing your API with the other VFS around in apache. I think commons has few

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Remy Maucherat r...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 07:57 -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: I remember many years back I was arguing in favor of DirContext - pro arguments were it's a standard, bundled in JDK, probably more target implementations will

Re: Creating tomcat VFS

2010-10-15 Thread Remy Maucherat
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 08:43 -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: But I hope you agree you were right, at least in the long term :-) Who cares about the long term, nobody uses 10 years old code. Oh, wait ;) Rémy - To unsubscribe,