See the recent long thread titled 'SSH Tasks' on ant-dev, where the jsch library from www.jcraft.com, which was recently re-licensed under BSD (used to be LGPL) is being planned for the basis of new Ant ssh-based tasks.
Being BSD-licensed, this library would be acceptable (?) to use by Commons-Net (under ASL) as an external dependency, if I understood correctly the recent turmoil of emails... But only if the Commons-Net community thinks it's valuable of course ;-) --DD -----Original Message----- From: Daniel F. Savarese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 4:18 PM To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: [Net] plans for ssh In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Wechner writes: >are there any plans to support "ssh" within the commons-net package? Not that I know of at the moment. Still, if there is demand for an ssh client protocol implementation in Java distributed under the ASL, there's no reason it could not be implemented. That is, keeping in mind that a commons-net implementation would in effect be a toolkit for building ssh client applications, exposing the protocol to the programmer through an API, rather than a full end-user ssh client application with terminal emulation, etc. However, I would guess most folks would be adequately served by wrapping a command line ssh client like OpenSSH. Perhaps that's a place to start. Define some interfaces and provide an OpenSSH wrapper implementation, providing a pure Java implementation later only if there is a real demand. daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
