1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<!-- 3 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 4 contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 5 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 6 The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 7 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 8 the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 10 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 12 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16 limitations under the License. 17--> 18<html> 19<head> 20 <title>Proposal for IO Package</title> 21</head> 22 <body bgcolor="white"> 23 24<div align="center"> 25<h1>Proposal for <em>IO</em> Package</h1> 26 </div> 27 28<h3>(0) Rationale</h3> 29 30<p>Many software projects have a need to perform I/O in various ways, and 31the JDK class libraries provide a lot of functionality, but sometimes you 32need just a little bit more. The io package seeks to encapsulate some of 33the most popular i/o base classes into one easy to use package.</p> 34 35<h3>(1) Scope of the Package</h3> 36 37<p>This proposal is to create a package of Java utility classes for various 38types of i/o related activity.</p> 39 40<h3>(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages</h3> 41 42<p><em>IO</em> relies only on standard JDK 1.2 (or later) APIs for production 43deployment. It utilizes the JUnit unit testing framework for developing 44and executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to developers of the 45component. IO will be a dependency for several existing components in the 46open source world.</p> 47 48<p>No external configuration files are utilized.</p> 49 50<h3>(2) Initial Source of the Package</h3> 51 52<p>The original Java classes are splashed around various Apache subprojects. 53 We intend to seek them out and integrate them.</p> 54 55<p>The proposed package name for the new component is <code>org.apache.commons.io</code>.</p> 56 57<h3>(3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources</h3> 58 59<ul> 60 <li>CVS Repository - New directory <code>io</code> in the <code>jakarta-commons</code> 61CVS repository.</li> 62 <li>Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general <em>[email protected]</em> 63mailing list. To help list subscribers identify messages of interest, 64it is suggested that the message subject of messages about this component 65be prefixed with [IO].</li> 66 <li>Bugzilla - New component "IO" under the "Commons" product category, 67with appropriate version identifiers as needed.</li> 68 <li>Jyve FAQ - New category "commons-io" (when available).</li> 69 70</ul> 71 72<h3>(4) Initial Committers</h3> 73 74<p>The initial committers on the IO component shall be Scott Sanders and 75Nicola Ken Barozzi and Henri Yandell</p> 76 <br> 77</body> 78</html> 79