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Re: com.sun.ftp?

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From	"Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this>
Subject	Re: com.sun.ftp?
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  To: Knute Johnson
From: "Arne Vajhoj" <arne.vajhoj@1:261/38.remove-qhs-this>

  To: Knute Johnson
From: "Arne Vajhoj" <arne.vajhoj@1:261/38.remove-p82-this>

  To: Knute Johnson
From: Arne Vajhoj <arne@vajhoej.dk>

On 8/6/2012 7:06 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 8/6/2012 3:02 PM, Arne Vajhoj wrote:
>> On 8/6/2012 4:37 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Anybody know what the plans are for com.sun.ftp?  I've got a project
>>> that would work out really well if I could use the FtpClient class from
>>> that package.  Is it in the Mac version of Java 7?
>>
>> Why not use the Apache Common Net library?
>>
>> Instead of relying on some undocumented can change anytime stuff.
>
> 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.

The earliest reference I can find for this class is from 2000.

http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=17357

so it has been kept undocumented and unsupported for 12 years.

But maybe it will be documented within the next 12 years.

:-)

But if they document it then the package name would be changed, so even that 
would require a code change.

Arne

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