My recent project, the NSF SFTP File Store consists of two main parts: the SFTP server itself (powered by Apache Mina) and a Java NIO filesystem implementation. I casually mentioned the latter in my introductory post, but I think it's an interesting topic that warrants a post or two of its own.

I've been thinking lately about what I can do with the Open Liberty Runtime project. If you're not familiar with it, the gist of it is that it gloms the Open Liberty Java/Jakarta EE app server onto Domino to allow deploying up-to-date WAR-based apps "to Domino", sharing the server's access to NSFs.

If you've been doing Java development for a while, you've likely run into a situation where you need to Base64-encode or -decode something. It's used commonly in MIME documents, data URIs, and various other areas typically related to data transfer. Unfortunately, using Base64 in Java was awkward for a long time.