I believe it will be implemented in Java 7. Carl would know for sure
since I believe he worked on it. You might try Commons VFS though. It
has support for a number of different file systems and does some
caching.

Hope this helps,

Mark

On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, John Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> And does anyone know when JSR-203 will be implemented? Java 7?
>
> On Jan 7, 12:46 am, John Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think you are on to the correct explanation, at least from what I
>> read on the Sun/Bugs site. It seems to be related to caching the file
>> information.
>>
>> However, as the facts stand it's much slower over the network, so to
>> return to the original post - does anyone have a solution or
>> workaround?
>>
>> On Jan 7, 12:09 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Here is my "guess" as to what is happening (I had a quick look at the
>> > bug ticket but couldn't see an explanation).
>>
>> > And I haven't written this sort of code in C for a while, so this is
>> > an extra big guess.
>>
>> > When you get a dir list in Java it creates a list of File objects
>> > which are just paths to the file.  Calling isDirectory() forces is to
>> > go back the the network because it doesn't have any kind of real
>> > handle on the OS object which represents the file.
>>
>> > In C, when you get a directory list, do you get a list of "handles to
>> > OS objects" which can be polled immediately for an attribute?
>

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