The Commons community would like to announce the availability of Commons VFS 1.0. Commons-VFS 1.0 is the first release.

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. For example, you can use filenames like "tar:gz:http://anyhost/dir/mytar.tar.gz!/mytar.tar!/path/in/tar/README.txt" to access a compressed tar file located on a web server.

Commons VFS is available in either binary or source form from the Commons VFS downloads page.

Find more about it here.

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