Looks like there is an S3 plugin already.  I'm not sure what version of VFS
it works with, but it might do the trick.

https://github.com/abashev/vfs-s3

Hope this helps,

Mark




On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Liviu Tudor <liviu.tu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> D'oh, good point about unit testing, Gary! Hasn't crossed my mind what a
> problem this could be hmmmm food for thought I suppose…
> I'll go and talk to my team after the holiday season see if I can pull
> some resources towards this.
> Thanks for the heads-up!
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> On 23/12/2011 23:49, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >The whole commons community is responsible for VFS but some developers
> >are more focused on a subset of commons. There are no plans that I
> >know of for S3. You are welcome to contribute a patch with a JIRA. The
> >tricky part is unit testing. Usually tests runs with every build but
> >in this case I am not sure how you can do this without mocking.
> >
> >Gary
> >
> >On Dec 23, 2011, at 18:38, Liviu Tudor <liviu.tu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>
> >> One of the projects I am to work on in the new year requires amongst
> >>other
> >> things storage of certain files in the Amazon S3. VFS sprang to mind as
> >>I
> >> knew from browsing the Commons repository that it provides an
> >>abstraction
> >> layer for dealing with file system ‹ however, it appears there is no S3
> >> support in VFS. Are there plans to include this in a future release? If
> >>so,
> >> is there an estimated release date? And also who are the developers
> >> responsible for this? I'm only asking because I'm thinking/hoping that I
> >> might be able to convince my company to put some effort perhaps into
> >> building S3 support into VFS ‹ and as such would be good to be in direct
> >> contact with the lead developers on this if I manage to pull this off.
> >> (Don't take this as a promise though, it's more of a dream I suppose at
> >>this
> >> stage :) But you don't find out till you try it so fingers crossed!)
> >>
> >>
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> >> Liv
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