Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-10 Thread Ralph Goers
I have been working primarily on Log4j 2 for a while. I have always planned to come back to start work on VFS 3 that will integrate with Java 7's java.nio.file support. Ralph On Oct 9, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Bernd Eckenfels e...@zusammenkunft.net wrote: Dear [VFS] Developer and Contributors,

[VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Dear [VFS] Developer and Contributors, Please excuse the spam (bcc to all emails mentioned as developers (8) or contributors (6) in the project pom). The project is currently a bit in sleeping state. I raised a few concerns and questions on the commons-dev mailinglist and wanted to direct

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Fortner
Hi Bernd, I'm a user rather than a developer of VFS. I have a weekend project to create a file browser in JavaFX. Prior to that I wrote an NFS provider for a company I was working for. Concurrency/thread safety should definitely be a priority. Part of my weekend project uses a threadpool to

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Am 09.10.2013, 21:53 Uhr, schrieb Mark Fortner phidia...@gmail.com: Hi Bernd, I'm a user rather than a developer of VFS. I have a weekend project to create a file browser in JavaFX. Prior to that I wrote an NFS provider for a company I was working for. Thats nice, is it available

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Fortner
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bernd Eckenfels e...@zusammenkunft.netwrote: Am 09.10.2013, 21:53 Uhr, schrieb Mark Fortner phidia...@gmail.com: Hi Bernd, I'm a user rather than a developer of VFS. I have a weekend project to create a file browser in JavaFX. Prior to that I wrote an NFS

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mark Fortner wrote: [snip] It was proprietary code for the company I worked for at the time. I don't have access to the code any longer, but it was based on Sun/Oracle's YANFS implementation and wasn't that difficult to write. YANFS uses BSD now (it used to be CDDL). I'm not sure if the

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Fortner
Hi Jörg, Thanks for the link, but I don't think that quite addresses the issue. What I'd like to see is the ability to automatically install a VFS provider that isn't already on your local machine. For example, if I wanted to see a directory listing of sftp://someserver/somedir; and I don't

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread Gary Gregory
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Mark Fortner phidia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jörg, Thanks for the link, but I don't think that quite addresses the issue. What I'd like to see is the ability to automatically install a VFS provider that isn't already on your local machine. For example, if I

Re: [VFS] developer ping - future direction

2013-10-09 Thread James Carman
You would need metadata like we have in OSGi land in order to piece everything together reliably. A dynamically growing OSGi environment would be cool. On Wednesday, October 9, 2013, Gary Gregory wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Mark Fortner phidia...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Hi