Providing Your Own I/O Method

If you as a Cactus developer have your own input/output routines and want to share this functionality with other people you should do this by putting them into an new I/O thorn and register them as an I/O method. A description on how to register a new I/O method with the flesh's I/O subsystem can be found in the Infrastructure Thorn Writer's Guide (as part of the Cactus User's Guide).

New I/O thorns should always inherit from thorn IOUtil in order to reuse as much of the existing I/O infrastructure as possible, and to maintain a uniform interface on how to use the I/O methods.