I have been pondering adding a "virtual file system" to one of my projects. The idea is that I have data in a managed store which could be represented as files. Also you could add files to the store by dropping the files into the drive. I'm trying to avoid the manual syncing of a real file system.
Creating the native bridge sounds painful and would be different on each platform. An FTP or SSH server could work but this is still clunky. So this got me to thinking about network file systems. I could create a server connector in Java. I can see there are a bunch of projects around that do this. Mostly university projects and they have various licenses. But there seem to be a range of different protocols, and each have their own implications of features, which ports they use and which OSes support them. Plus, I assume it's a "one server per IP" proposition (not like a web server where you can just change to port 8080 if 80 is in use). Does anyone have experience in this space and can offer any recommendations? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
