diff --git a/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TFileProcessor.java b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TFileProcessor.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.thrift.transport;
+
+import org.apache.thrift.TProcessor;
+import org.apache.thrift.TException;
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocol;
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolFactory;
+
+
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * FileProcessor: helps in processing files generated by TFileTransport.
+ * Port of original cpp implementation
+ *
+ * @author Joydeep Sen Sarma <jssarma@facebook.com>
+ */
+public class TFileProcessor {
+
+  private TProcessor processor_;
+  private TProtocolFactory inputProtocolFactory_;
+  private TProtocolFactory outputProtocolFactory_;
+  private TFileTransport inputTransport_;
+  private TTransport outputTransport_;
+
+  public TFileProcessor(TProcessor processor, TProtocolFactory protocolFactory,
+                        TFileTransport inputTransport,
+                        TTransport outputTransport) {
+    processor_ = processor;
+    inputProtocolFactory_ = outputProtocolFactory_ = protocolFactory;
+    inputTransport_ = inputTransport;
+    outputTransport_ = outputTransport;
+  }
+
+  public TFileProcessor(TProcessor processor, 
+                        TProtocolFactory inputProtocolFactory,
+                        TProtocolFactory outputProtocolFactory,
+                        TFileTransport inputTransport,
+                        TTransport outputTransport) {
+    processor_ = processor;
+    inputProtocolFactory_ = inputProtocolFactory;
+    outputProtocolFactory_ = outputProtocolFactory;
+    inputTransport_ = inputTransport;
+    outputTransport_ = outputTransport;
+  }
+
+  private void processUntil(int lastChunk) throws TException {
+    TProtocol ip = inputProtocolFactory_.getProtocol(inputTransport_);
+    TProtocol op = outputProtocolFactory_.getProtocol(outputTransport_);
+    int curChunk = inputTransport_.getCurChunk();
+
+    try {
+      while (lastChunk >= curChunk) {
+        processor_.process(ip, op);
+        int newChunk = inputTransport_.getCurChunk();
+        curChunk = newChunk;
+      } 
+    } catch (TTransportException e) {
+      // if we are processing the last chunk - we could have just hit EOF
+      // on EOF - trap the error and stop processing.
+      if(e.getType() != TTransportException.END_OF_FILE)
+        throw e;
+      else {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Process from start to last chunk both inclusive where chunks begin from 0
+
+   * @param startChunkNum first chunk to be processed
+   * @param lastChunkNum last chunk to be processed
+   */
+  public void processChunk(int startChunkNum, int endChunkNum) throws TException {
+    int numChunks = inputTransport_.getNumChunks();
+    if(endChunkNum < 0)
+      endChunkNum += numChunks;
+
+    if(startChunkNum < 0)
+      startChunkNum += numChunks;
+
+    if(endChunkNum < startChunkNum)
+      throw new TException("endChunkNum " + endChunkNum + " is less than " + startChunkNum);
+
+    inputTransport_.seekToChunk(startChunkNum);
+    processUntil(endChunkNum);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Process a single chunk
+   *
+   * @param chunkNum chunk to be processed
+   */
+  public void processChunk(int chunkNum) throws TException {
+    processChunk(chunkNum, chunkNum);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Process a current chunk
+   */
+  public void processChunk() throws TException {
+    processChunk(inputTransport_.getCurChunk());
+  }
+}
diff --git a/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TFileTransport.java b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TFileTransport.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.thrift.transport;
+
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+/**
+ * FileTransport implementation of the TTransport interface.
+ * Currently this is a straightforward port of the cpp implementation
+ * 
+ * It may make better sense to provide a basic stream access on top of the framed file format
+ * The FileTransport can then be a user of this framed file format with some additional logic
+ * for chunking.
+ *
+ * @author Joydeep Sen Sarma <jssarma@facebook.com>
+ */
+public class TFileTransport extends TTransport {
+
+  public static class truncableBufferedInputStream extends BufferedInputStream {
+    public void trunc() {
+      pos = count = 0;
+    }        
+    public truncableBufferedInputStream(InputStream in) {
+      super(in);
+    }
+    public truncableBufferedInputStream(InputStream in, int size) {
+      super(in, size);
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  public static class Event {
+    private byte[] buf_;
+    private int nread_;
+    private int navailable_;
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize an event. Initially, it has no valid contents
+     *
+     * @param buf byte array buffer to store event 
+     */
+    public Event(byte[] buf) {
+      buf_ = buf;
+      nread_ = navailable_ = 0;
+    }
+
+    public byte[] getBuf() { return buf_;}
+    public int getSize() { return buf_.length; }
+
+
+    public void setAvailable(int sz) { nread_ = 0; navailable_=sz;}
+    public int getRemaining() { return (navailable_ - nread_); }
+
+    public int emit(byte[] buf, int offset, int ndesired) {
+      if((ndesired == 0) || (ndesired > getRemaining()))
+        ndesired = getRemaining();
+
+      if(ndesired <= 0)
+        return (ndesired);
+
+      System.arraycopy(buf_, nread_, buf, offset, ndesired);
+      nread_ += ndesired;
+
+      return(ndesired);
+    }
+  };
+
+  public static class chunkState {
+    /**
+     * Chunk Size. Must be same across all implementations
+     */
+    public static final int DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+    private int chunk_size_ = DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE;
+    private long offset_ = 0;
+
+    public chunkState() {}
+    public chunkState(int chunk_size) { chunk_size_ = chunk_size; }
+
+    public void skip(int size) {offset_ += size; }
+    public void seek(long offset) {offset_ = offset;}
+
+    public int getChunkSize() { return chunk_size_;}
+    public int getChunkNum() { return ((int)(offset_/chunk_size_));}
+    public int getRemaining() { return (chunk_size_ - ((int)(offset_ % chunk_size_)));}
+    public long getOffset() { return (offset_);}
+  }
+
+  public static enum tailPolicy {
+
+    NOWAIT(0, 0),
+      WAIT_FOREVER(500, -1);
+
+    /**
+     * Time in milliseconds to sleep before next read
+     * If 0, no sleep
+     */
+    public final int timeout_;
+
+    /**
+     * Number of retries before giving up
+     * if 0, no retries
+     * if -1, retry forever
+     */
+    public final int retries_;
+
+    /**
+     * ctor for policy
+     *
+     * @param timeout sleep time for this particular policy
+     * @param retries number of retries
+     */
+
+    tailPolicy(int timeout, int retries) {
+      timeout_ = timeout;
+      retries_ = retries;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Current tailing policy
+   */
+  tailPolicy currentPolicy_ = tailPolicy.NOWAIT;
+
+
+  /** 
+   * Underlying file being read
+   */
+  protected TSeekableFile inputFile_ = null;
+
+  /** 
+   * Underlying outputStream 
+   */
+  protected OutputStream outputStream_ = null;
+
+
+  /**
+   * Event currently read in
+   */
+  Event currentEvent_ = null;
+
+  /**
+   * InputStream currently being used for reading
+   */
+  InputStream inputStream_ = null;
+
+  /**
+   * current Chunk state
+   */
+  chunkState cs = null;
+
+  /**
+   * Read timeout
+   */
+  private int readTimeout_ = 0;
+
+  /**
+   * is read only?
+   */
+  private boolean readOnly_ = false;
+
+  /**
+   * Get File Tailing Policy
+   * 
+   * @return current read policy
+   */
+  public tailPolicy getTailPolicy() {
+    return (currentPolicy_);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Set file Tailing Policy
+   * 
+   * @param policy New policy to set
+   * @return Old policy
+   */
+  public tailPolicy setTailPolicy(tailPolicy policy) {
+    tailPolicy old = currentPolicy_;
+    currentPolicy_ = policy;
+    return (old);
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Initialize read input stream
+   * 
+   * @return input stream to read from file
+   */
+  private InputStream createInputStream() throws TTransportException {
+    InputStream is;
+    try {
+      if(inputStream_ != null) {
+        ((truncableBufferedInputStream)inputStream_).trunc();
+        is = inputStream_;
+      } else {
+        is = new truncableBufferedInputStream(inputFile_.getInputStream());
+      }
+    } catch (IOException iox) {
+      System.err.println("createInputStream: "+iox.getMessage());
+      throw new TTransportException(iox.getMessage(), iox);
+    }
+    return(is);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read (potentially tailing) an input stream
+   * 
+   * @param is InputStream to read from
+   * @param buf Buffer to read into
+   * @param off Offset in buffer to read into
+   * @param len Number of bytes to read
+   * @param tp  policy to use if we hit EOF
+   *
+   * @return number of bytes read
+   */
+  private int tailRead(InputStream is, byte[] buf, 
+                       int off, int len, tailPolicy tp) throws TTransportException {
+    int orig_len = len;
+    try {
+      int retries = 0;
+      while(len > 0) {
+        int cnt = is.read(buf, off, len);
+        if(cnt > 0) {
+          off += cnt;
+          len -= cnt;
+          retries = 0;
+          cs.skip(cnt); // remember that we read so many bytes
+        } else if (cnt == -1) {
+          // EOF
+          retries++;
+
+          if((tp.retries_ != -1) && tp.retries_ < retries)
+            return (orig_len - len);
+
+          if(tp.timeout_ > 0) {
+            try {Thread.sleep(tp.timeout_);} catch(InterruptedException e) {}
+          }
+        } else {
+          // either non-zero or -1 is what the contract says!
+          throw new
+            TTransportException("Unexpected return from InputStream.read = "
+                                + cnt);
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (IOException iox) {
+      throw new TTransportException(iox.getMessage(), iox);
+    }
+
+    return(orig_len - len);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Event is corrupted. Do recovery
+   *
+   * @return true if recovery could be performed and we can read more data
+   *         false is returned only when nothing more can be read
+   */
+  private boolean performRecovery() throws TTransportException {
+    int numChunks = getNumChunks();
+    int curChunk = cs.getChunkNum();
+
+    if(curChunk >= (numChunks-1)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    seekToChunk(curChunk+1);
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read event from underlying file
+   *
+   * @return true if event could be read, false otherwise (on EOF)
+   */
+  private boolean readEvent() throws TTransportException {
+    byte[] ebytes = new byte[4];
+    int esize;
+    int nread;
+    int nrequested;
+
+    retry:
+    do {
+      // corner case. read to end of chunk
+      nrequested = cs.getRemaining();
+      if(nrequested < 4) {
+        nread = tailRead(inputStream_, ebytes, 0, nrequested, currentPolicy_);
+        if(nread != nrequested) {
+          return(false);
+        }
+      }
+
+      // assuming serialized on little endian machine
+      nread = tailRead(inputStream_, ebytes, 0, 4, currentPolicy_);
+      if(nread != 4) {
+        return(false);
+      }
+
+      esize=0;
+      for(int i=3; i>=0; i--) {
+        int val = (0x000000ff & (int)ebytes[i]);
+        esize |= (val << (i*8));
+      }
+
+      // check if event is corrupted and do recovery as required
+      if(esize > cs.getRemaining()) {
+        throw new TTransportException("FileTransport error: bad event size");
+        /*        
+                  if(performRecovery()) {
+                  esize=0;
+                  } else {
+                  return false;
+                  }
+        */
+      }
+    } while (esize == 0);
+
+    // reset existing event or get a larger one
+    if(currentEvent_.getSize() < esize)
+      currentEvent_ = new Event(new byte [esize]);
+
+    // populate the event
+    byte[] buf = currentEvent_.getBuf();
+    nread = tailRead(inputStream_, buf, 0, esize, currentPolicy_);
+    if(nread != esize) {
+      return(false);
+    }
+    currentEvent_.setAvailable(esize);
+    return(true);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * open if both input/output open unless readonly
+   *
+   * @return true
+   */
+  public boolean isOpen() {
+    return ((inputStream_ != null) && (readOnly_ || (outputStream_ != null)));
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Diverging from the cpp model and sticking to the TSocket model
+   * Files are not opened in ctor - but in explicit open call
+   */
+  public void open() throws TTransportException {
+    if (isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.ALREADY_OPEN);
+
+    try {
+      inputStream_ = createInputStream();
+      cs = new chunkState();
+      currentEvent_ = new Event(new byte [256]);
+
+      if(!readOnly_)
+        outputStream_ = new BufferedOutputStream(inputFile_.getOutputStream(), 8192);
+    } catch (IOException iox) {
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, iox);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Closes the transport.
+   */
+  public void close() {
+    if (inputFile_ != null) {
+      try {
+        inputFile_.close();
+      } catch (IOException iox) {
+        System.err.println("WARNING: Error closing input file: " +
+                           iox.getMessage());
+      }
+      inputFile_ = null;
+    }
+    if (outputStream_ != null) {
+      try {
+        outputStream_.close();
+      } catch (IOException iox) {
+        System.err.println("WARNING: Error closing output stream: " +
+                           iox.getMessage());
+      }
+      outputStream_ = null;
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * File Transport ctor
+   *
+   * @param path File path to read and write from
+   * @param readOnly Whether this is a read-only transport
+   */ 
+  public TFileTransport(final String path, boolean readOnly) throws IOException {
+    inputFile_ = new TStandardFile(path);
+    readOnly_ = readOnly;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * File Transport ctor
+   *
+   * @param inputFile_ open TSeekableFile to read/write from
+   * @param readOnly Whether this is a read-only transport
+   */
+  public TFileTransport(TSeekableFile inputFile, boolean readOnly) {
+    inputFile_ = inputFile;
+    readOnly_ = readOnly;
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Cloned from TTransport.java:readAll(). Only difference is throwing an EOF exception
+   * where one is detected.
+   */
+  public int readAll(byte[] buf, int off, int len)
+    throws TTransportException {
+    int got = 0;
+    int ret = 0;
+    while (got < len) {
+      ret = read(buf, off+got, len-got);
+      if (ret < 0) {
+        throw new TTransportException("Error in reading from file");
+      }
+      if(ret == 0) {
+        throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.END_OF_FILE,
+                                      "End of File reached");
+      }
+      got += ret;
+    }
+    return got;
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Reads up to len bytes into buffer buf, starting att offset off.
+   *
+   * @param buf Array to read into
+   * @param off Index to start reading at
+   * @param len Maximum number of bytes to read
+   * @return The number of bytes actually read
+   * @throws TTransportException if there was an error reading data
+   */
+  public int read(byte[] buf, int off, int len) throws TTransportException {
+    if(!isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, 
+                                    "Must open before reading");
+
+    if(currentEvent_.getRemaining() == 0) {
+      if(!readEvent())
+        return(0);
+    }
+
+    int nread = currentEvent_.emit(buf, off, len);
+    return nread;
+  }
+
+  public int getNumChunks() throws TTransportException {
+    if(!isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, 
+                                    "Must open before getNumChunks");
+    try {
+      long len = inputFile_.length();
+      if(len == 0)
+        return 0;
+      else 
+        return (((int)(len/cs.getChunkSize())) + 1);
+
+    } catch (IOException iox) {
+      throw new TTransportException(iox.getMessage(), iox);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public int getCurChunk() throws TTransportException {
+    if(!isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, 
+                                    "Must open before getCurChunk");
+    return (cs.getChunkNum());
+
+  }
+
+
+  public void seekToChunk(int chunk) throws TTransportException {
+    if(!isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, 
+                                    "Must open before seeking");
+
+    int numChunks = getNumChunks();
+
+    // file is empty, seeking to chunk is pointless
+    if (numChunks == 0) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // negative indicates reverse seek (from the end)
+    if (chunk < 0) {
+      chunk += numChunks;
+    }
+
+    // too large a value for reverse seek, just seek to beginnin
+    if (chunk < 0) {
+      chunk = 0;
+    }
+
+    long eofOffset=0;
+    boolean seekToEnd = (chunk >= numChunks);
+    if(seekToEnd) {
+      chunk = chunk - 1;
+      try { eofOffset = inputFile_.length(); }
+      catch (IOException iox) {throw new TTransportException(iox.getMessage(),
+                                                             iox);}
+    }
+
+    if(chunk*cs.getChunkSize() != cs.getOffset()) {
+      try { inputFile_.seek((long)chunk*cs.getChunkSize()); } 
+      catch (IOException iox) {
+        System.err.println("createInputStream: "+iox.getMessage());
+        throw new TTransportException("Seek to chunk " +
+                                      chunk + " " +iox.getMessage(), iox);
+      }
+
+      cs.seek((long)chunk*cs.getChunkSize());
+      currentEvent_.setAvailable(0);
+      inputStream_ = createInputStream();
+    }
+
+    if(seekToEnd) {
+      // waiting forever here - otherwise we can hit EOF and end up
+      // having consumed partial data from the data stream.
+      tailPolicy old = setTailPolicy(tailPolicy.WAIT_FOREVER);
+      while(cs.getOffset() < eofOffset) { readEvent(); }
+      currentEvent_.setAvailable(0);
+      setTailPolicy(old);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public void seekToEnd() throws TTransportException {
+    if(!isOpen()) 
+      throw new TTransportException(TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, 
+                                    "Must open before seeking");
+    seekToChunk(getNumChunks());
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Writes up to len bytes from the buffer.
+   *
+   * @param buf The output data buffer
+   * @param off The offset to start writing from
+   * @param len The number of bytes to write
+   * @throws TTransportException if there was an error writing data
+   */
+  public void write(byte[] buf, int off, int len) throws TTransportException {
+    throw new TTransportException("Not Supported");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Flush any pending data out of a transport buffer.
+   *
+   * @throws TTransportException if there was an error writing out data.
+   */
+  public void flush() throws TTransportException {
+    throw new TTransportException("Not Supported");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * test program
+   * 
+   */
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+    int num_chunks = 10;
+
+    if((args.length < 1) || args[0].equals("--help")
+       || args[0].equals("-h") || args[0].equals("-?")) {
+      printUsage();
+    }
+
+    if(args.length > 1) {
+      try {
+        num_chunks = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
+      } catch (Exception e) {
+        System.err.println("Cannot parse " + args[1]); 
+        printUsage();
+      }
+    }
+
+    TFileTransport t = new TFileTransport(args[0], true);
+    t.open();
+    System.out.println("NumChunks="+t.getNumChunks());
+
+    Random r = new Random();
+    for(int j=0; j<num_chunks; j++) {
+      byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
+      int cnum = r.nextInt(t.getNumChunks()-1);
+      System.out.println("Reading chunk "+cnum);
+      t.seekToChunk(cnum);
+      for(int i=0; i<4096; i++) {
+        t.read(buf, 0, 4096);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static void printUsage() {
+    System.err.println("Usage: TFileTransport <filename> [num_chunks]");
+    System.err.println("       (Opens and reads num_chunks chunks from file randomly)");
+    System.exit(1);
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TSeekableFile.java b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TSeekableFile.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e02d36f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TSeekableFile.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.thrift.transport;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public interface TSeekableFile {
+
+  public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
+  public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException;
+  public void close() throws IOException;
+  public long length() throws IOException;
+  public void seek(long pos) throws IOException;
+}
diff --git a/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TStandardFile.java b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TStandardFile.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a33af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/transport/TStandardFile.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.thrift.transport;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+
+public class TStandardFile implements TSeekableFile {
+
+  protected String path_ = null;
+  protected RandomAccessFile inputFile_ = null;
+
+  public TStandardFile(String path) throws IOException {
+    path_ = path;
+    inputFile_ = new RandomAccessFile(path_, "r");
+  }
+
+  public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
+    return new FileInputStream(inputFile_.getFD());
+  }
+
+  public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
+    return new FileOutputStream(path_);
+  }
+
+  public void close() throws IOException {
+    if(inputFile_ != null) {
+      inputFile_.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  public long length() throws IOException {
+    return inputFile_.length();
+  }
+
+  public void seek(long pos) throws IOException {
+    inputFile_.seek(pos);
+  }
+}