Hello Jens, I actually chose Apache Common VFS because I needed it for some of my applications that already integrate with this library :)
But Commons VFS is still quite a good choice since it implements a lot of useful filesystems, such as : - FTP - WebDAV - Zip, Jar, ... - Tar, Gzip - CIFS - Mime and a lot of others. Also, it is available I think as far back as JDK 1.3 (for version 1.0) so that makes it usable in a lot of older code. Part of the idea was to bring new capabilities to old code, simply by deploying my commons-vfs-cmis.jar and its dependencies, and giving it a proper URI to connect to a CMIS repository. I'm happy to be able to say that my implementation definitely shows that this works at least as a proof of concept, possibly even more. Now I'm not very familiar with the new JDK 7 FileSystem provider interface, but this is on the opposite side of the spectrum in terms of support :) So it would be great to also have such an implementation, but I won't be able to use it out of the box for my projects right now at least since it would require using the new JDK 7 API. Best regards, Serge Huber. Envoyé de mon iPad Le 6 juil. 2013 à 18:21, "Huebel, Jens" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Serge, > > interesting a week ago I looked at something similar: The Java 7 File > System Provider: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/filesystemprov > ider.html > > I never looked at the Apache VFS but I guess both of them have similar > ideas. Personally I would tend to use the Java standard, if functionality > is similar. Is there any reason why you took the Apache route? > > I did not so any coding so far, and implementing the JDK 7 API seems not > to be a trivial task if I look at the sample code. But having a simple > file like API for CMIS is definitely something I would be interested in. > > Keep us informed about your progress please! > > Jens > > > > On 05.07.13 16:59, "Serge Huber" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I have been playing around with some code lately because I thought it >> might >> be interesting to integrate Apache Common VFS and the OpenCMIS client API. >> >> The main idea behind this project was to make it possible for any project >> that already integrates Common VFS to simply become compatible with CMIS >> simply by deploying a few JARS and using a new URL to connect to a CMIS >> repository. >> >> The current implementation is of course very young (only basic >> browse/read/write support), but I was wondering if there was some wider >> interest for such a thing. >> >> You can find the current code in the following Github repository : >> >> https://github.com/Jahia/commons-vfs-cmis >> >> Before starting this I actually search if anybody had attempted to do this >> before but I couldn't find anything. I also chose to implement against >> Commons VFS 1.0, despite being quite old it is still used in a lot of >> projects (including our own). >> >> I try to keep the root README.md file up to date to reflect the current >> status of the project as much as possible. >> >> I have successfully tested this with the OpenCMIS InMemory public >> repository as well as Alfresco's public CMIS repository and a local >> installation of Alfresco. Only the AtomPub binding is currently >> implemented >> but it should be reasonably easy to implement more. If anybody wants to >> test this against more repositories you can simply do so by specifying a >> command line parameter like in this example : >> >> mvn clean install -Dtest.cmis.uri=cmis:atompub:// >> admin:[email protected]/cmisatom >> >> Of course I welcome all feedback, I hope other here will find this >> interesting. >> >> Best regards, >> Serge Huber. >
