diff --git a/other/java/hdfs/pom.xml b/other/java/hdfs/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>seaweed.hadoop</groupId>
+    <artifactId>seaweedfs</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <properties>
+        <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java b/other/java/hdfs/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java
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+package seaweed.hdfs;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progressable;
+
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+
+public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
+
+    public static final int FS_SEAWEED_DEFAULT_PORT = 8333;
+    public static final String FS_SEAWEED_HOST = "fs.seaweed.host";
+    public static final String FS_SEAWEED_HOST_PORT = "fs.seaweed.host.port";
+
+    private URI uri;
+    private Path workingDirectory = new Path("/");
+
+    public URI getUri() {
+        return uri;
+    }
+
+    public String getScheme() {
+        return "seaweed";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void initialize(URI uri, Configuration conf) throws IOException { // get
+        super.initialize(uri, conf);
+
+        // get host information from uri (overrides info in conf)
+        String host = uri.getHost();
+        host = (host == null) ? conf.get(FS_SEAWEED_HOST, null) : host;
+        if (host == null) {
+            throw new IOException("Invalid host specified");
+        }
+        conf.set(FS_SEAWEED_HOST, host);
+
+        // get port information from uri, (overrides info in conf)
+        int port = uri.getPort();
+        port = (port == -1) ? FS_SEAWEED_DEFAULT_PORT : port;
+        conf.setInt(FS_SEAWEED_HOST_PORT, port);
+
+        setConf(conf);
+        this.uri = uri;
+    }
+
+    public FSDataInputStream open(Path path, int i) throws IOException {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public FSDataOutputStream create(Path path, FsPermission fsPermission, boolean b, int i, short i1, long l, Progressable progressable) throws IOException {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public FSDataOutputStream append(Path path, int i, Progressable progressable) throws IOException {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public boolean rename(Path path, Path path1) throws IOException {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public boolean delete(Path path, boolean b) throws IOException {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public FileStatus[] listStatus(Path path) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        return new FileStatus[0];
+    }
+
+    public Path getWorkingDirectory() {
+        return workingDirectory;
+    }
+
+    public void setWorkingDirectory(Path path) {
+        if (path.isAbsolute()) {
+            workingDirectory = path;
+        } else {
+            workingDirectory = new Path(workingDirectory, path);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public boolean mkdirs(Path path, FsPermission fsPermission) throws IOException {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public FileStatus getFileStatus(Path path) throws IOException {
+        return null;
+    }
+}