[jcifs] Sun's Extended Filesystem & jCIFS.

[Michael B. Allen]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:49:50 -0500
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> Just a quick question for the list.  I note that on Sun's web page for 
> the Java Extended Filesystem API they mention CIFS:
> 
>                          Extended Filesystem
>                              Architecture
>                            Java Application
>                            com.sun.xfile.*
>                        nfs: native: file: cifs:
> 
> It's just in a table in the middle of the doc, and there's no other
> reference on that page.  I'm just curious if anyone knows if there's
> anything more to that.  It would be interesting if Sun were to adopt
> jCIFS...

The intention was to eventually support XFileAccessor and be a XFile
"provider". Someone even submitted code once but it was a wrapper class
and that didn't appeal to me at the time. We'll see though.

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