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<document>
<properties>
<title>Commons Virtual File System</title>
<author email="jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</author>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Commons Virtual File System">
<p>
Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing
various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of
the files from various different sources, such as the files on
local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive.
</p>
<p>Some of the features of Commons VFS are:</p>
<ul>
<li>
A single consistent API for accessing files of different
types.
</li>
<li>Support for numerous
<a href="filesystems.html">file system types</a>
.
</li>
<li>
Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM,
and optionally can cache remote file information on the
local file system.
</li>
<li>Event delivery.</li>
<li>
Support for logical file systems made up of files from
various different file systems.
</li>
<li>
Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications,
such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory.
</li>
<li>A set of VFS-enabled
<a href="anttasks.html">Ant tasks</a>
.
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section name="News">
<p>
VFS is splitted into core, examples and sandbox now.
</p>
<p>
Due to some technical reasons we had to move the webdav and jcifs (smb) filesystem to
the sandbox. So if you need one of these filesystems you have to build VFS manually.
</p>
<p>
To build VFS, it will be best to check-it-out from svn and use maven 2 to
build all at once - Notice: the ant and maven 1 build will just build the core.
</p>
<p>
And - we have a new filesystem: mime (read only for sure)<br/>
This filesystem allows you to read e-mails like archives, e.g. the attachments are the
children of the mail itself.<br />
You'll find it in our sandbox.
</p>
<p>
Also notice that we now have a "3rd party plugins" page. It will list all external
plugins available for VFS.<br />
You have such a beast - and will get listed? Just drop me a mail: imario -at- apache.org
</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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