> > From: "Phil Steitz" > Date: 2004/01/03 Sat PM 07:10:01 EST > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" , > "Apache Directory Developers List" > Subject: Re: [JXPath] Plans for JNDI, JMX and Filesystems? > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Henri, > > > > You misunderstood. I meant a JNDI service provider for file system objects, > > such that a DirContext is a Directory, files are present as objects, file > > system attributes are JNDI attributes, etc. Sun had a beta file system > > provider in an earlier version of JNDI, but it pretty much suffered for lack > > of features, and is no longer provided. > > > Yes, a fs context provider would make a good addition to directory-naming. Here, here! I agree as well. Also on my wish list are the following JNDI providers: Webdav/DeltaV Webdav/DeltaV with extentions for Subversion BTW some of the slide code may perhaps come in handy for this. Don't know for certain until I do some research. > The basic ingredients for this are already there in the sources from > tomcat (see the FileDirContext class in the resources package of > naming/core). I am working on repackaging and getting the web site out > for this component. I will post a link back to this list when the website > is out. Thats great. I would love to help on this but I need to get Eve up and running soon. I've been too busy reading literally thousands of pages in IETF and ITU documents lately: refreshing myself. I can help work on this at a high level however I cannot get into the code until after a couple of months of groking Eve. Oh and another thing I think Noel and I spoke about it at some point in time: let's see if we can get file system change notification working for filesystems like NTFS which support it. Unfortunately UNIX does not have a filesystem with this feature out there. Don't know why but I suspect it may have something to due with the locking model differences between NTFS and most other FS. Cheers, Alex