Apache Commons VFS

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[edit] Overview Apache Commons VFS

Apache Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive.

Some of the features of Commons VFS are:

• A single consistent API for accessing files of different types.
• Support for numerous file system types .
  • FTP
  • Local Files
  • HTTP and HTTPS
  • SFTP
  • Temporary Files
  • Zip, Jar and Tar (uncompressed, tgz or tbz2)
  • gzip and bzip2
  • res
  • ram
  • mime
• Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM, and optionally can cache remote file information on the local file system.
• Event delivery.
• Support for logical file systems made up of files from various different file systems.
• Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications, such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory.
• A set of VFS-enabled Ant tasks .

[edit] Apache Commons VFS Resources

• Web site: http://commons.apache.org/vfs/
• Download: http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_vfs.cgi
• Java API: Apache Commons VFS API
• Examples: Apache Commons VFS by exampes
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