Hi folks, so judging from the conversation we have volunteers for Apache Commons VFS :-)
Reclaiming the message thread - who else would like to present his/her pet component? Thanks in advance Siegfried Goeschl On 17 Apr 2014, at 17:28, Schalk Cronjé <ysb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/04/2014 23:45, Mark Fortner wrote: >> Schalk, >> It's my understanding that new providers in NIO2 are simply added using the >> ServiceLoader. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mark > Hi Mark, > > Maybe I should have explained better, > > In Apache VFS one can either add custom providers via a > META-INF/vfs-providers.xml file (behaviour of StandardFileSystemManager). > This means just compiling a JAR accordingly and have it available on the > classpath. Let's call this Approach A. > > Alternatively one can call addProvider (on DefaultFileSystemManager) > directly. This is quite useful in certain circumstances to do this > programmatically. This is Approach B. > > With NIO2 loading occurs by providing a > META-INF/services/java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider file and ServiceLoader > should take care of it. This is effectively the NIO2 way of Approach A. > > What I am saying is that I would like to have an Approach B for NIO2 as well, > except that I have seen no clear way of accomplishing it. It could just be a > lack of knowledge on my side. > >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Schalk Cronj é <ysb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 17/04/2014 22:38, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >>> >>> <snip/> >>> >>> But theoretically both is possible: consume FileSystems as a provider >>>> or implement an adapter which makes a VFS filesystem(manager) to >>>> provide the FileSystem SPI. >>>> >>> I have been playing with that and it looks possible, but it is far from >>> trivial. The meagre documentation or even lack of published success in >>> writing NIO2 providers shows that this is a road less travelled. I have >>> looked at the supplied ZIP example that comes with the JDK and IMHO still >>> very much prototype code. >>> >>> I think VFS has some things going for it that I could not see in NIO2 - >>> even something as simple as having two schemes for one provider. In >>> addition, adding providers on the fly is easy in VFS, by just calling >>> addProvider on FilesystemManager. From my initial investigation I could not >>> see a clear way of doing the equivalent in NIO2. There will be more things >>> like these, I am sure. >>> >>> I am very interesting in where this is going in future and the maintainer >>> of Groovy VFS, I have a vested interest. I might be interested to go to >>> Budapest in November if this gets discussed. >>> >>> <snip/> >>> >>> -- >>> Schalk W. Cronjé >>> @ysb33r >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> > > > -- > Schalk W. Cronjé > @ysb33r > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
