Feb 132013
 

Pretty much any program needs to do I/O to process some data. Sure, in Java we have InputStream and OutputStream (or its modern day cousin, Channel) to do this with relative ease. However, this is not the end of the story. In everyday programming, I often need some higher level abstractions. Actually, I need them so often that I wonder why there are no abstractions like the following in the JSE API. Continue reading »

Nov 132012
 

TrueZIP 7.7 has been released. This is mostly a maintenance release which fixes bugs and improves documentation. As of now, TrueZIP is entering maintenance mode, that is, it should only receive maintenance updates while new features should go into its successor, TrueVFS. An update to TrueVFS should get released in due time.

Continue reading »

Sep 052012
 

The last posting on this blog introduced you to the TrueVFS Archetype Access. This is a Maven archetype which generates a project with a bunch of sample applications for TrueVFS. This time we will slightly adapt the generated project so that we can monitor some nice statistics provided by the TrueVFS Extension Insight. Continue reading »