Examples of File Name Usage and Filesystem Selection

XFile f1 = new XFile("nfs://hostname/directory1");

// NFS file based on an absolute URL

XFile f2 = new XFile("file.txt");

// not a URL, so defaults to the current directory of the "native" filesystem

XFile f4 = new XFile(f1,"text.html");

// evaluated relative to the base URL of f1 - which is "nfs".

One point to be made from these examples is that the validity of a constructed XFile is made when the XFile is used, not when it is constructed. This is consistent with the java.io.Fileclass.