"mstruk" wrote : anonymous wrote : | | IIRC, the path originally was setup lazily, except for the now obsolete jar handler that went through every entry up-front? | | | | I'd like to learn more about JarHandler being obsolete ... | When I reworked the VFS there were two different implementation patterns. One was for things have directory structures like the file system (see AbstractVirtualHandler::structuredFindChild) the other was things like jars where you list jar entries but they aren't structured in directories (see AbstractVirtualHandler::simpleFindChild) The JarHandler later got changed by somebody else (Scott?) to simulate a directory structure. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4138890#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...