I missed most of this thread so I am not 100% sure what you are talking about, but this may be of interest:
http://openide.netbeans.org/fs/ The NetBeans filesystem layer is separable and provides an abstraction over java.io.File. In this scheme, I guess <fileset> would correspond to org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem plus a filter, more or less. Existing implementations of FileSystem include local directory (wrapper for File); JAR/ZIP; FTP; version-control-enhanced directories; static XML file; metafilesystem (merges other filesystems). Licensing: source is under a variant of Mozilla license; binary should be redistributable without issues. Cheers, -Jesse Tim Vernum wrote: > > >>5 AntFile > > >....snip Virtual File System blurb... > > > > > >There is one included with the opensource version of forte > > > IIRC (forget name of project atm) > > netbeans > > > The Sun WebNFS proposal has support at the URL level which plugs > > nicely into the above and also has an "XFile" proposal which might be > > close to what we want. I will take a look at it and report back. For > > some reason the download isn't working this evening. > > http://www.sun.com/software/webnfs/ds-webnfs.html > > Any word? > > I personally don't care if/how a VFS is implemented, just as long > as a fileset is no longer tied to a physical directory + files, > and it is possible to code new fileset types if needed. -- Jesse Glick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NetBeans, Open APIs <http://www.netbeans.org/> tel (+4202) 3300-9161 Sun Micro x49161 Praha CR
