Re: com.sun.ftp?

From:
"Robert Klemme" <robert.klemme@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:44:22 GMT
Message-ID:
<5023FE30.56419.calajapr@time.synchro.net>
  To: Knute Johnson
From: "Robert Klemme" <robert.klemme@1:261/38.remove-qhs-this>

  To: Knute Johnson
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

On 08/07/2012 01:06 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:

I think I was assuming that it is a coming feature. Why would they go
to the effort to create an ftp package and include it in the JDK if it
wasn't going to be a regular package some day.


One reason would be that it is not used explicitly but rather implicitly, for
example via
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#openStream%28%29

Also from that page: "Protocol handlers for the following protocols are
guaranteed to exist on the search path :-

          http, https, ftp, file, and jar"

In other words: it is a regular package but it is not intended to be used
directly but only via a different publicly accessible package.

Kind regards

        robert

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