Mario, If you need any assistance and/or found a bug, please do not hesitate to > ask or file it here: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla
Thanks for the pointer. Be sure that we will provide as much feedback as possible. I am really interested to see vfs working in such an environment. This is great! I have just uploaded a development version (for Windows and Linux: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=370450) which runs on VFS. You might play with it and provide us some feedback too (the JCommander forum is a good start: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=35271). Another project I started is JFileWatch: > http://l3x.net/imwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JFileWatch > which should allow us to use e.g. inotify for linux to get filesystem > events. > Currently, I have only an implementation for linux - and I dont know if > it works with the latest inotify, but such a tool might be a great > addition for jcommander too. My motivation for further development might > rise :-) Great :-) This sounds interesting indeed. JFileWatch could be useful in JCommander to monitor third-party activities in the current directory and refresh when detecting these. As an adjacent issue, we all know the limitations of the java.io<http://java.io>API in dealing with files. The approach VFS uses is a pure Java one, however there are file system features that are completely unavailable in Java. There are several examples : file notifications (in your case), partition information, trash/recycle bin handling, file permissions. For all these native code is required. Do you think that in the future VFS could have a native extension library which could be developed to support these? We could interest people from the JDIC project (e.g. https://jdic.dev.java.net/incubator/fileutil/index.html) and maybe we could set up a native C++ developers pool that could provide help in this process. Regards, Robert
