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===I'm having trouble implementing this filesystem....===

Be sure that what you really want to be doing is implement [http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/org-openide-filesystems/org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html FileSystem].  Unless you really need to access objects in a database, remote server, or some other such storage as if they were files, you are probably heading in the wrong direction.

If you do need to implement a FileSystem, you should probably start with [http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/org-openide-filesystems/org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html AbstractFileSystem] - it handles a lot of knotty locking semantics correctly and will save you a lot of time, effort and bugs.

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