FTAM — Architecture issue

9. Another issue is related to the architecture. We would like to provide a customer with an IDL for accessing server side file systems. The most important operation is a file transmission. In current design of FTAM/FTP Interworking there is a "transfer" operation that copies file between two Virtual File Systems. In this case customer will have to implement his VFS and a driver (or we will have to implement for him) and we afraid that from his point of view it may be not acceptable. I would like to know if an operation of FileTransferSession which just returns file contents is considered for FTAM/FTP RFP (i.e. operation that returns sequence of octets). In this case customer will not have to implement his VFS - the file contents will be retrieved by simple IDL operation

duplicate of issue 3821 – close issue