WebNFS Client SDK

FCS 1.1 Release Notes

Version Notes

This release is version 1.1 and has been tested using JDK1.1.6.

Release Contents

This release includes the following:

New Features and Changes

  1. WebNFS XFileAccessor Interface Reference

  2. Additional Methods in XFile

  3. Reference to XFileExtensionAccessor

  4. Reference to native files

Known Problems/Issues

Following is a list of known problems or issues.

4123748: Client code doesn't escape "%" when evaluating relative URL

4155312: Spurious retransmissions from Windows/NT

4155313: Threads writing to common XFileOutputStream sometimes hang

This version of the SDK has been tested in 1.1.6 and will not compile or run with the beta version of JDK 1.2. However, future releases of the SDK will be compliant to the FCS version of JDK 1.2.

The WebNFS Server

You should test your client application against both WebNFS-enabled servers and non-WebNFS-enabled servers. Currently 3 commercial WebNFS-enabled servers are available:

WebNFS client applications should assume that the server is WebNFS enabled. Please refer to the WebNFS Client Specification (RFC2054), section 7 "Contacting the Server" for details on recommended coding techniques.

However, if you do not have access to a WebNFS enabled server, your application should still work. The WebNFS client code falls back to what the server supports.


Last modified: July 28, 1998

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