OKI Common Services Byte Storing and Filing API.
The 'filing' api (renamed from 'file'), provides a way of storing and retrieving static content. It provides an abstraction layer between the file system and the OKI application.
For example, some implementations may allow the OKI application to use this API to access files stored on other computer systems. The implementation of the API may provide features not available in any native file system.
There are analogies between elements the API and Unix filesystems, but these should be viewed as convergent evolution, rather than as a direct relationship.
It follows when appropriate the java.io.File class. However, in this API the concepts of 'file' and 'directory' are kept separate, since a 'directory' need not be implemented as a special case of 'file' as it is in Unix file systems. Further, the notion of a "path" is not so ingrained in this API.
It is not bound to Java, and should be usable from other languages. For compatiblity with existing Java or .NET IO libraries, methods are provided to return platform-dependant objects, three methods are provided which return platform-native IO objects. However, these should be avoided as much as practical.
In this API are: