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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: com.sun.ftp?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:56:02 +0200
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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