On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > James Carman wrote: >> Have you tried Commons VFS? It might be easier. > > No, I'm basically groping in the dark. I put ftp into google, and > net/ftp appears to be the most high-profile project from the apache > foundation which appears to have the most mature set of Java libraries > available. > > I feel like I'm the victim of a practical joke where you name one > package with exactly the terms I would type into google, and then make a > different package that is actually useful. =P
Heh, too funny. Commons Net will do what you want, but it's meant to be a lower-level API, more closely tied to the protocols themselves. Commons VFS builds a file system abstraction on top of all kinds of protocols (local files, ftp, http, etc.). To me, it's easier to get that up and running and if I ever want to change it in the future to a different technology, I can without changing my client code, since it's using the abstraction. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
