Symbolic Links

Although the NFS protocol supports the use of symbolic links, neither the java.io classes nor the API acknowledge their existence. The NFS classes make symbolic links transparent to the application by following links automatically in the same way that PC-NFS clients do. If a Java application attempts to access an NFS URL that references a symbolic link, the NFS classes will follow the link (and any further links) and return the attributes of the file or directory that is referenced by the link. A Java application cannot create a symbolic link through the API though a future release of the NFS XFileExtensionAccessor will support this feature.