From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sun's Extended File API implementation is (or at least > was a while back) under a nasty license which pretty > much precludes our direct reuse. However doesn't mean > we can't reimplement it ;)
Hmm... I wonder if it is possible to ask Sun to let us own it? I see nothing has been done to it since Summer 98. You are right about the licensing. It isn't designed for reuse. > NetBeans was basically mozilla license IIRC ? If so it > should be ok as long as we use the public API and > don't have to muck to much in the guts of it. If > the guts needs changes and the NetBeans peeps wont > make them then we can't use it but I would prefer to > at least try at first ;) ok. I will work on it. > Avalon had one at one stage but I yanked it. If we > wanted to be really abstracted from resources we could > use something like JNDI (which is what Will work on using JNDI too. > I have written at least 5 different VFSes in the last > few years (only 2 in java though) and mostly they are > the same ideas just optimized for different > uses/access strategies. Want to contribute one of them? ;-) Magesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
