[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
scohen      2005/05/29 17:40:21

  Modified:    src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net
                        FTPTest.java
               src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net FTP.java
               src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/net ftp.xml
               docs/manual/OptionalTasks ftp.html
  Added:       src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util Retryable.java
                        RetryHandler.java
  Log:
  Based on a patch submitted by Neeme Praks, allow support for a retry count on 
FTP transfers.  Some
  servers are unreliable for unknown - this allows for a retry count to be 
specified to accomodate work on such
  flaky servers.


nice. Are you doing any kind of back-off algorithm to deal with load problems? If so, add a bit of jitter to increase the randomness. (I remember an embedded system without back-off but not jitter failing to deal with the situation of an entire building with 120+ nodes having its power toggled...)

-steve

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