jakarta-commons-vfs

Commons Virtual Filesystem

Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various different file systems. 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. Some of the features of Commons VFS are: * A single consistent API for accessing files of different types. * Support for numerous file system types. * Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM, and optionally can cache remote file information on the local file system. * Event delivery. * Support for logical file systems made up of files from various different file systems. * Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications, such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory. * A set of VFS-enabled Ant tasks.