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EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file
system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and
methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

This release comes with a new Zip file system implementation using the Zip classes from the At4J project. A bug has been fixed that required that the root node had to occur first in the backing Zip file in the old Zip file system implementation.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

This release comes with a few small fixes and a small performance enhancement. The FS and RAM file system implementations have been moved from the EntityFS core JAR file to JAR files of their own. Backslashes are now allowed in entity names, but this only works on non-Windows platforms.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

Version 1.1.4 comes with performance improvements when handling absolute and relative search paths. An issue where the PollingDirectoryMonitorer did not report modified entities on Windows has been fixed.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

EntityFS 1.1.3 comes with two new filters -- GrepFilter and FGrepFilter. Some new utility methods have been added to existing utility classes. A new article shows how EntityFS can be used from Groovy programs. ... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

EntityFS 1.1.2 is a small update release. It adds a few utility methods and it reenables the validation of relative locations, which was disabled by accident in previous releases.

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EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

Version 1.1.1 is a small feature release with two new features – A new copy method has been added to the Entities class and the EntityFilter interface was reintroduced to make entity filters easier to find in the Javadocs. Read the release notes and the change log for details.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

EntityFS 1.1 comes with a number of new utility methods and classes. The new OverwriteStrategy gives a more tunable way of overwriting existing entities in different operations. The filter implementation has been made more generic, and
the EntityFilter interface has been removed in favor of Filter<EntityView>. Location aware recursive iterators keep track of each returned object's location relative to a base directory.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

Finally 1.0! This release brings many small improvements over previous releases. The biggest change is that the default settings have changed when creating file system. See the release notes and the change log for more details.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

1.0-rc1 is a rather big release. It contains four new capabilities and a few bug fixes and performance improvements. The documentation has been updated and extended. The API has changed in a few places. The change log contains more information on where the changes have been made.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

This release fixes a bug in the base 64 encoding/decoding.

AbsoluteEntityLocation / AbsoluteEL and RelativeEntityLocation / RelativeEL have been dropped in favor of AbsoluteLocation / RelativeLocation. This will break clients, but they should be easy to fix.... read more

EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

This release fixes a bug that made the RAM file system forget entities under certain circumstances. It also adds a few methods to existing classes, as well as a new ReadWritableFileAdapter for java.io.File.... read more

EntityFS 1.0-beta5 released. EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

New in this release is a capability that enables support for entity metadata. To make that possible, entity objects and delegate interfaces had to be refactored somewhat. This does not affect applications using EntityFS, but all existing capability implementations have to be updated to the new API:s.... read more

EntityFS 1.0-beta2 released. EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

This is a minor update release. It adds two ReadableFile implementations. The main reason for doing this release is that this is the EntityFS version used in Schmant version 0.5... read more

EntityFS 1.0-beta2 released. EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

In this release, a large number of utility classes and methods have been added and the documentation has been extended.

EntityFS 1.0-beta2 released. EntityFS -- giving your files identity. EntityFS is an object oriented file system API for Java. It contains a large selection of utility classes and methods for making it easier to work with file systems.

In this release, a large number of utility classes and methods have been added and the documentation has been extended.

After a few months of hard work, EntityFS 1.0-beta1 was released today. Visit us at http://www.entityfs.org