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See http://www.sun.com/webnfs/. Using the WebNFS SDK, if and when it stabilizes & comes out of beta, would permit us to scrap a lot of the proprietary stuff in the FileSystem/FileObject interfaces, and make the rest semi-optional ex tensions. Also, file-oriented access to arbitrary URLs would mostly fall out of this naturally, etc. Modules that the user didn`t want to install for real, but just wanted to try out briefly, could be specified as e.g.: nfs://www.netbeans.com/ide/modules/testing123.jar Not important really, but would be cool. [source code exists but does not work--ask Jarda]
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Would probably now be JSR 51 anyway.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verify.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.