A question to Apache Virtual File System users and developers.
I'm working on a filesystem ontology for the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop EU Project. I want to define a generic File class. It should apply to files on a harddisk, on the network and inside archive files. As far as I know there is no standard way to build URL's for files inside compressed archives.
The goal is to have a single knowledge base where every file has a single URL and make it available to applications in all lanugages on all platforms regardless of whether it is in /home or C:\ or inside a jar file packed into a zip and stored on some obscure sftp server.
Your solution (i.e. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/vfs/filesystems.html) is great, but i have some questions.
Are there any standards or widely accepted conventions (apart from URI RFC) you relied on? (I mean accessing files inside archives by compressionprefix : arch-file-uri [! absolute-path] - is it your idea or is it standarized somewhere).
Are you aware of any projects implementing a similar idea in other languages (C++ or C#).
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