Apache Commons Net library contains a collection of network utilities and protocol implementations. Supported protocols include: Echo, Finger, FTP, NNTP, NTP, POP3(S), SMTP(S), Telnet, Whois
More information can be found on the homepage. The JavaDoc can be browsed. Questions related to the usage of Apache Commons Net should be posted to the user mailing list.
You can download source and binaries from our download page.
Alternatively you can pull it from the central Maven repositories:
<dependency> <groupId>commons-net</groupId> <artifactId>commons-net</artifactId> <version>3.5-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency>
We accept PRs via github. The developer mailing list is the main channel of communication for contributors. There are some guidelines which will make applying PRs easier for us:
mvn clean test
.If you plan to contribute on a regular basis, please consider filing a contributor license agreement. You can learn more about contributing via GitHub in our contribution guidelines.
Code is under the Apache Licence v2.
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