Project Notes


Project: HTTPVFS
Author: Keith Wood (kbwood@iprimus.com.au)
Description:

A Virtual File System for JBuilder that operates over the Internet.

Url's for this system have the form:

httpvfs://<host>/<host>/<file>

where host is the machine that hosts the actual files and file is the path and name of the file on that machine relative to some base directory that it uses. The host defaults to localhost:8080, but can be altered by setting a system property with the name wood.keith.httpvfs.host when starting JBuilder.

A servlet runs on the host machine to respond to file requests. It provides access to files in the directory specified in the wood.keith.httpvfs.basedir parameter in the servlet's web.xml file.