Another angle to consider is whether this should be in VFS2 or in a new Java 7-based FileSystem library. Or both. The biggest hurdle I see is unit testing.
Gary On Dec 23, 2011, at 21:34, Elijah Zupancic <eli...@zupancic.name> wrote: > I would love to help out with this if there is support from the Commons > community on integrating S3 functionality. > > -Elijah > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
