How do I get started with the JNDI file system provider?

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How do I get started with the JNDI file system provider?

The JNDI architecture allows you to access various naming and directory services, through a standard interface, mainly through the Context and DirContext interfaces.

Sun has written an implementation of these interfaces to access the filesystem: the filesystem service provider. It can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/serviceproviders.html.

The following example shows you how to get a File object using the filesystem service provider. Make sure you have added the following JARs to your classpath:

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Note: if you specify a directory, you'll get an instance of a class that implements the Context interface, a JNDI subtree.

Main.java:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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