I recall seeing S3 mentioned on the dev list a while ago, probably in reference to this project and whether we wanted to include it in VFS. It seems to be based on vfs2. I didn't investigate to see what licenses its dependencies are under, but this project is now Apache licensed.
Ralph On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Mark Fortner wrote: > 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! >> >> >> Liv >> >> Liviu Tudor >> >> E: liviu.tu...@gmail.com >> M: +44 (0)7917696626 >> W: http://about.me/liviutudor >> Skype: liviutudor >> >> I'm nobody, nobody's perfect -- therefore I'm perfect! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 23/12/2011 23:49, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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!) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Liv >>>> >>>> >>>> Liviu Tudor >>>> >>>> E: liviu.tu...@gmail.com <mailto:liviu.tu...@gmail.com> >>>> M: +44 (0)7917696626 >>>> W: http://about.me/liviutudor <http://about.me/liviutudor> >>>> Skype: liviutudor >>>> >>>> I'm nobody, nobody's perfect -- therefore I'm perfect! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
