Legacy java.io.File and new FileSystems

[Michael Hall]

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On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> As I said, in this API, the way to get existing apps using  
> java.io.File/etc. to access these custom file systems transparently  
> is to develop a virtual file system provider and run with it set as  
> the default. A fun project if you have the time to work on it.


Revisiting the project I would normally want to try and add a  
functionality to it. Besides once again having a working read/write  
zip FileSystem I was considering adding some underlying caching code.  
This would implement some caching policy for the data in the zip. Per  
entry number of backups, retention periods etc., all with the using  
code not needing to be altered in any way. More recently I was  
thinking of adding some crypto as well. I can add the default  
FileSystem selector as another todo list item to attempt. I should of  
read your reply more closely to understand how that needs to be done.

Thanks again for the informative replies but I'd better get reading  
and coding to get anywhere with this.

Mike Hall        hallmike at att dot net
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