Java NIO File file/folder versioning

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Aug 21 03:14:37 PDT 2012


On 20/08/2012 15:53, Syao Work wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> We are in need of implementation of VFS with versioning (the engine 
> could be JCR or similar...).
> It would be good to use Java NIO File API instead of quite old Apache 
> Commons VFS. So here is the question:
>
> Is there a plan of making NIO File API compatible with (V)FSes that 
> has version control support? Similar to Apache Commons VFS or JCR 
> versions.
> I searched the API/Papaers and couldn't find info about it.
>
> P.S. may be you have some ideas how to make version control work with 
> versionless NIO File API?
>
> Sorry for my English.
> Jonny
I'm not aware of anyone working on a file system provider that a version 
control system. It could be an interesting project but I suspect there 
will be challenges and that it may not be possible to completely 
implement the API.

-Alan


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