We seem to have found a home in Android Apps.
"Christopher R. Hertel" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.samba.java |
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| Organization | Samba Team / jCIFS Team |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
jCIFS is a project I started many years ago, probably in 1998, but I'm not sure. I had only a basic understanding of Java and a vague idea that an SMB/CIFS toolkit for Java would be useful. I wrote some awful Java code and put it up on the web for public ridicule until someone (Mike) came along and said "I can do better". My thanks to Mike for taking over and making the project come to life. My role has become quite small in comparison. Thanks also to Eric for building Davenport on top of jCIFS, and for the NTLMSSP documentation that is such an important reference in the SMB/CIFS community that Microsoft had to write a translation cheat-sheet to explain the terms in they use in their documentation. Thanks to everyone who uses jCIFS, particularly those who have submitted patches and ideas. We have seen jCIFS used in mainframes to cellphones and everything in between. Speaking of cellphones... I know of two very popular file browser apps for Android that use jCIFS as their underlying SMB/CIFS implementation. As far as I can tell, however, there is no acknowledgement of jCIFS in these apps, and no pointer to the jCIFS source. I would like to see jCIFS acknowledged and the links provided, per the license. The LGPL was specifically chosen to make it easy to use jCIFS with closed-source applications, so there is no reason not to meet the terms. jCIFS is a perfect fit for Android, so I expect that there are several apps that use it. It would be nice to get some participation from Android developers. In particular, I would like to see jCIFS expanded to include SMB2 support. Windows XP is the last supported Windows OS that does not include SMB2 capabilities, so I think it's time. Chris -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected]