Working on an internal project that required writing lots of files to a
WebDav server I spent an entire week screwing around with Commons VFSs
webdav implementation. I gave up and wrote a cute wrapper around Jackrabbits
Webdav HTTP Client methods which worked much better :)

Looks like the new NIO stuff in JDK7 has a Virtual File System SPI that
might be interesting to have a look at.

James

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hmm.. it appears to be a client perspective API. "It presents a
> uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the
> files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive."
> I'll look at it though, and see what it contains.
>
> There seems to be lots of NFS clients around, as this is the common
> use case.
>
> On Mar 6, 9:40 am, Mark Fortner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You might try Apache Commons VFS which supports a large number of file
> > systems including WebDAV.  WebDAV volumes are mountable via the Windows
> File
> > Manager as well as from OS X File Manager and the Nautilus File Manager
> in
> > Linux.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Christian Catchpole <
> [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > 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)<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_%28protocol%29>
> >
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