1<?xml version="1.0"?> 2<!-- 3Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 4contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 5this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 6The 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 8the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 10 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 12Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16limitations under the License. 17--> 18<document> 19 <properties> 20 <title>Tasks</title> 21 <author email="[email protected]">Commons Documentation Team</author> 22 </properties> 23 <body> 24 <section name="Tasks and Ideas for the future"> 25 <p> 26 The following are some of the proposed ideas and tasks for commons-io: 27 </p> 28 <ul> 29 <li>A proper user guide</li> 30 <li>A URLUtils class that has many of the FileUtils operations, but for a URL</li> 31 <li>FilePoller for telling when a file changes. Look in Tomcat, or GenJava[bayard] (One implemented in bugzilla awaiting investigation)</li> 32 <li>A "hot folder" handler which triggers an action when a new file has been uploaded to an FTP directory, for example.</li> 33 <li>JoinReader/ConcatReader. One in GenJava, one submitted to Bayard</li> 34 <li>FormattedWriter, when it writes out values it uses Format objects to output them. </li> 35 <li>FixedWidthReader. Reads in files with a known width, ie) mainframe like. </li> 36 </ul> 37 </section> 38 </body> 39</document> 40