Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.comwrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
Okay...I started down that path but found it was going to be a fairly involved task...I was wondering if maybe someone had an implementation in the public domain or possibly as part of FTPServer code base. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.comwrote: Write your own implementations of FtpFile, FileSystemView, FileSystemFactory. Inject the FileSystemFactory into your FtpServer object. That's it. On 16 September 2013 13:29, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
Well, NativeFilesystem etc. are one implementation that's in the FTPServer code base. It's not a particularly involved task. There are lots of methods, but most of them will have very short implementations (isReadable(), isWritable() etc.) What goes into the implementation depends on what you want for the backend. On 16 September 2013 13:37, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Okay...I started down that path but found it was going to be a fairly involved task...I was wondering if maybe someone had an implementation in the public domain or possibly as part of FTPServer code base. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Write your own implementations of FtpFile, FileSystemView, FileSystemFactory. Inject the FileSystemFactory into your FtpServer object. That's it. On 16 September 2013 13:29, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
In my case I wanted a virtual file system that was event based, e.g. when file was received it would fire event with data (name plus byte array). I got the events/notification working fine...just didn't have time to implement the VFS. For now I just read the byes from the native file system and then delete the file. I hope to get back to that...but got directed to a different project for the moment. IMHO, it seems a VFS would have enough general interest...it would be great to be part of the FTPServer project...either in the mainline code...or in an example project. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:59 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.comwrote: Well, NativeFilesystem etc. are one implementation that's in the FTPServer code base. It's not a particularly involved task. There are lots of methods, but most of them will have very short implementations (isReadable(), isWritable() etc.) What goes into the implementation depends on what you want for the backend. On 16 September 2013 13:37, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Okay...I started down that path but found it was going to be a fairly involved task...I was wondering if maybe someone had an implementation in the public domain or possibly as part of FTPServer code base. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Write your own implementations of FtpFile, FileSystemView, FileSystemFactory. Inject the FileSystemFactory into your FtpServer object. That's it. On 16 September 2013 13:29, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
Frank, thanks for the heads-up...I'll definitely have a look at that. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Frank van der Kleij kl...@hotmail.comwrote: I did this VFS integration for Apache FTP server a while ago but I haven't looked at it for almost two years now: http://vfs-utils.sourceforge.net/ftpserver/index.html Perhaps it can help - at least to get started! Frank Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:37:16 -0600 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts From: dhoff...@gmail.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Okay...I started down that path but found it was going to be a fairly involved task...I was wondering if maybe someone had an implementation in the public domain or possibly as part of FTPServer code base. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Write your own implementations of FtpFile, FileSystemView, FileSystemFactory. Inject the FileSystemFactory into your FtpServer object. That's it. On 16 September 2013 13:29, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
Dave, Both VFS and your custom FileSystemView is fairly simple to embed/implement. In-fact I prefer having a custom FileSystemView as it lets me control the files/folders and the way we show it. You just have to create your own FileSystemView and pass it to FtpServerFactory so that it handles all the operations CWD, PWD, MKD etc. Cheers, Sam From: David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Monday, 16 September 2013, 19:25 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts In my case I wanted a virtual file system that was event based, e.g. when file was received it would fire event with data (name plus byte array). I got the events/notification working fine...just didn't have time to implement the VFS. For now I just read the byes from the native file system and then delete the file. I hope to get back to that...but got directed to a different project for the moment. IMHO, it seems a VFS would have enough general interest...it would be great to be part of the FTPServer project...either in the mainline code...or in an example project. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:59 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.comwrote: Well, NativeFilesystem etc. are one implementation that's in the FTPServer code base. It's not a particularly involved task. There are lots of methods, but most of them will have very short implementations (isReadable(), isWritable() etc.) What goes into the implementation depends on what you want for the backend. On 16 September 2013 13:37, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Okay...I started down that path but found it was going to be a fairly involved task...I was wondering if maybe someone had an implementation in the public domain or possibly as part of FTPServer code base. -Dave On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 AM, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Write your own implementations of FtpFile, FileSystemView, FileSystemFactory. Inject the FileSystemFactory into your FtpServer object. That's it. On 16 September 2013 13:29, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in the VFS...I wasn't aware of that...can you point me to info on that? For an app I have I'd like an in memory file system. Thanks, -Dave On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Mizanin sammyuglykid...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way -- There is no way to peace; peace is the way
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas
Re: Apache FtpServer doubts
Salvador, The Apache Ftpserver is pretty robust and stable. Have been using it for sometime. Its easily embedded and can tweak the way you want it which includes the Authentication module and the FileSystemView. It works great with the normal file system as well as with the VFS. Cheers, Sam From: Niklas Gustavsson nik...@protocol7.com To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013, 14:48 Subject: Re: Apache FtpServer doubts On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Salvador Alcantara Cano salvador.alcant...@uab.cat wrote: I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. The FtpServer project is somewhat dormant but the code base is reasonably solid. The way I see it, the major value FtpServer adds is being embeddable and offering a flexible API for integrating it, like switching out the file system or integrating with some custom authentication. If you're looking for a more regular FTP server, serving files from a normal file system, I'd go with something else, FileZilla being a good option. /niklas
Apache FtpServer doubts
Hello, I am starting to use Apache FtpServer. It seems a good ftp server, but I am not sure about the project activity. Is the Apache FtpServer an active project? How does Apache FtpServer compares with FileZilla? From ApacheFtpServer I like it a lot to have event hooks via Ftplets...something like this cannot be achieved with FileZilla. My concern is on robustness and stability. Best regards, Salva
