Larry Gates wrote:
>
> Here's another "project" that should be easy with Java, yet very
> much needed (at least by me, unless someone knows of a good
> alternative to Ncftp):
>
>
> I've always wanted a GUI driven FTP program just like CuteFTP for windows98.
Actually, go to IBM's AlphaWorks site. They have an FTP Bean you can
download and use. I use this in the back-end of the bookshop site I
recently deployed, where it sends orders and receives acknowledgements
and dispatch information to and from the book distributors via FTP, so I
needed to have FTP under fairly good programmatic control. But the Bean
package comes with a full AWT client (can't remember it might actually
be Swing) which is quite nice in its own right. It has a similar
interface to ws_ftp under Windows. A Java programmer could also take the
Bean and write whatever front end they liked of course.
The only problem I had with the Bean was using it on our house
network/gateway machine which exists on both our internal network and
masquerades for all the others on the internet as a whole. (ie: it has
two IP addresses). The FTP bean would send the wrong IP out to remote
sites. On all other machines, the deployed live server, and machines
behind our masquerade/firewall host, it's fine.
--
Rachel
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