jCIFS Goals

• Platform independance.
• Provide small, modular, mix-and-match pieces.
• Provide "parts" for building CIFS-aware tools and applications.
• Document what is learned about CIFS as we learn it.

The idea is to make CIFS easier to implement, particularly on smaller devices including embedded systems. Breaking the code into objects facilitates tailoring jCIFS to specific platforms and design goals.

Our efforts at documentation will, hopefully, make it easier for others to understand the workings of CIFS.

While Samba provides a scalable Unix-based CIFS server, jCIFS aims at facilitating the development of smaller client systems and low-end, peer-to-peer servers -- similar to the kinds of things found on commodity desktop OSes.

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