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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: com.sun.ftp?
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:06:56 -0700
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On 8/6/2012 3:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj 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.
>
> Arne
>
>

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.

-- 

Knute Johnson