On Nov 7, 2010, at 6:49 PM, James Carman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm not sure whether I agree. I think I mentioned that Java 7 has a new >> FileSystem abstraction. >> http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/package-summary.html. >> I would think VFS 3.0 would remove the API and just provide FileSystem >> implementations. So I'm not sure how much effort is worth investing in V2.0 >> to move it to Java 6. >> > > I saw something about this recently (if I had more sleep I could > probably recall where) and wondered about VFS. Does this new API look > like it would do everything that VFS currently does? If so, it's a > great step forward for the language, IMHO. >
I've not investigated it extensively, but the new API seems to have a lot of similarity to VFS. Instead of a File the new API uses a FileChannel, which is an abstract class. It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine all the various FileObjects extending that. The SPI also has a FileSystemProvider which is used to create a FileSystem and a FileStore. It also includes a WatchService to listen for changes and events. Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
