Apache Commons VFS

Download

The latest release (binaries and source) of Commons VFS can be found here.

You will also need to download the dependencies (jars) used by Apache Commons VFS. You can download the jars from the list below; with Apache Maven dependency resolution is automatic.

Dependency	Required For
Apache Commons Logging	All
Apache Commons Lang	All
Apache Commons Collections	LRU Cache (optional)
Apache Commons Compress	TAR, Bzip2
Apache Commons Net	FTP
Apache Commons Httpclient Requires Commons Codec	WebDAV, HTTP, URI Utils
Apache Jackrabbit WebDAV Library Requires Jackrabbit JCR Commons and SLF4J (Api and Impl).	WebDAV
JSch	SFTP
Apache Hadoop Common Apache Hadoop HDFS Common This requires a number of dependencies, use `$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop classpath` command.	HDFS
jCIFS	CIFS (VFS sandbox)
javamail	mime (VFS sandbox)

Building Commons VFS

To build Commons VFS, get the sources and use Apache Maven 3.2.5 or later. You need to use Java 8 or later. Production builds can be done with the -Pjava-1.8 profile from Commons Parent (which will compile and test with a JDK from the JAVA_1_8_HOME environment variable).

Use mvn clean verify to locally build and test the core and examples modules. This will build the core JAR files in commons-vfs/core/target/commons-vfs2-<version>.jar.

If you want to build the additional sandbox file systems as well, use mvn -Pinclude-sandbox clean verify. This will also create the sandbox components in commons-vfs/sandbox/target/commons-vfs2-sandbox-<version>.jar.

See the commons-vfs2-example Module on how to use VFS Example Shell to verify the result.